[mythtv-users] performance problem on old PC

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/02/05 18:32, Todd Houle wrote:

> 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?

Yep.  Although you might be able to make something work with RTJPEG (at 
least for a single tuner), it's not worth the effort and the 
compromises, IMHO.  And make sure he has Xv support for the video card 
(probably won't be an issue with a newer system, but might be with the 
old one).

Mike