[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?

[Christopher David Petersen]

No flames. 
 The referenced web page (which I've read carefully several times) is 
talking about system requirements for video. I'm interested in the minimum 
requirements for a *music only* frontend. Basically, I'd only run mythmusic 
with no visualizations.
 Slightly different. And, hopefully, different enough to prevent RTFM 
flames.
 If this question still seems too flame-able, then let's all agree that the 
next and last post to this thread will be mine: reporting on the results of 
the experiment with the aforementioned hardware.
 Agreed?
 -- 
Christopher David Petersen

 On 5/4/05, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen
> <christopher.david.petersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm thinking about using an old laptop for a music-only frontend and I 
> have
> > a few questions:
> >
> > 1) Is a PII 366 and 128 MB really enough to run Linux and a MythTV 
> frontend?
> > How about a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB?
> > 2) What's an easy to install distro that has a small enough memory 
> footprint
> > for 128 MB? For 96MB?
> > 3) Can 802.11b handle streaming FLAC audio files via SMB from the 
> backend?
> >
> >
> > Having read the documentation and searched the list, I feel this machine
> > could do it, but before purchasing it, I'd like to get some empirical 
> data.
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> no offense, but be prepared to be flamed. :)
> http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1
> there is a rough list of minimum requirements about a 1/8 way down the 
> page.
> 
> your PII 366 may be able to handle recording and playback
> simultaneously if you are using one of the pvr cards. you could
> probably use this machine as a backend if all your cards were
> prv-X50's. i'd guess you'd need to bump up the RAM though.
> you 'may' be able to use the P200MMX for a backend as well since the
> pvr cards do all the encoding/decoding (?) for you. but i doubt it
> would work as a front end.
> 
> PIII with 256MB RAM is the 'recommended' minimum. YMMV.
> good luck :)
>
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