[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend
Paul Bender
pebender at san.rr.com
Wed Jan 4 05:43:56 UTC 2006
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. ;)
You are correct. I should have mentioned that. That is one of the
advantages of the ASUS A8N-VM CSM board. While it has onboard audio, the
on board audio is not the audio provided by the NVIDIA chipset.
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