[mythtv-users] diskless backend?

[Stef Coene]

On Monday 10 October 2005 22:20, Alberto Alonso wrote:
> Are you using software decoding on the P3 733Mhz? Can
> that setup handle live TV pause?
>
> I am thinking of having an old laptop with almost those
> specs to be one of my front ends.
I tried it too.  I have 2 compaq armada's (e500).  One P2, 300 Mhz and one P3, 
450 Mhz (I think).  They both had enough horsepower, but I think there was a 
problem with the PCMCIA bus not fast enough.  The video was choppy.  When I 
changed the profiles so it uses MPEG4, all was fine.  I found out that a 
bitrate aboth 5Mbps was too much.
I ditched the project  because I couldn't get the tv-out working liably.


Stef