[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Wed Jan 4 05:34:59 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Ribe wrote:
> 
>         
>         Another choice is an AMD processor on an NVIDIA chipset based
>         motherboard. I have been playing with an AMD Athlon64 3200 on
>         an ASUS 
>         A8N-VM CSM. Even without the NVIDIA XvMC support (it is broken
>         in the
>         drivers for the motherboard chipset), it has not trouble with
>         SD.
> 
> 
> I should hope not!   A  500Mhz PIII should do DVD res. MPEG-2.  256MB
> of RAM helps things along, but you can get by with 128.  If you need
> to do MPEG-4, something around 900Mhz is probably necesary.    

I'd beware of NVidia chipset motherboards.  NForce3 and NForce4 audio
capabilities aren't completely supported in Alsa.  Especially if you're
thinking about using the SPDIF to do AC3...

Been bitten by this one too. ;)

	-I



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