[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

Nick Bloch nbloch at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 03:06:19 UTC 2006


On 1/2/06, R <rawgarlic at gmail.com> wrote:
> (On the backend, I plan to have multiple tuner cards, 300GB+ SATA hard
> disks, 1.5GB RAM, etc.)
>
> I need a frontend to mainly view Live TV and recorded shows.
>
> What would you recommend as the minimum hardware requirements for a frontend?
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I agree that if you are limiting yourself to live tv and recordings,
then cle266 is the way to go. There are some bargain small form factor
boards out there with c3 800MHz and cle266 that are a lot cheaper than
the Epias. The only drawback is that none of them seem to have tv-out.
I recently set up a dedicated front end on a PC Chips M789CG with an
LCD monitor as display and it works perfectly. The only place it
chokes is in the program browser - the miniature live tv window
stutters a bit when browsing.


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