[mythtv-users] performance problem on old PC

[Todd Houle]

I have been raving about MythTV to a friend of mine who finally  
decided to try it himself.  He had an old PC (1GHz Dell GX150) and 2  
old tuner cards (avermedia and hauppauge win-Tv).  I don't know the  
details of the cards other than they both use the bt878 chips.

We installed KnoppMyth as that is what he heard about elsewhere.   
KnoppMyth detected everything perfectly and ran great.  I added the  
cards in Myth-setup, but we couldn't use it happily.  There was a 1  
second pause, for every second of live tv...  I guess these cards  
don't have hardware MPEG encoders on them and the computer couldn't  
handle the load..  I lowered the quality way down, but still couldn't  
get a smooth playback..

I told him to get a better computer, or a TV card that supports  
hardware encoding.  Was I right?  or was there something else I could  
have done?

  thanks
     Todd