[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only
frontend?
Craig Partin
cpartin at gmail.com
Wed May 4 19:44:55 UTC 2005
On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen
<christopher.david.petersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Personally I think the last guy deserves flaming for not reading your
post thoroughly before responding. :)
It takes almost no CPU to play music, even FLAC decoding can be done
on more modest processors than your old Pentium. Linux will run on
anything, I think even KB of memory. The only problems I see would be
the slowness of menus in loading a large music library. I'm certain
your machine would make a fine music only frontend. I ran a video
FE/BE on a 500MHz Celeron for a few months.
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