[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend
Steve Adeff
adeffs at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 05:43:20 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 00:34, Ian Forde wrote:
> 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
been working fine for me, both an nForce3 and nForce4 motherboards.
--
Steve
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