[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

Kirby Bakken kirby at magnaspeed.net
Wed Jan 4 06:04:14 UTC 2006


Paul Bender wrote:

> 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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At least two Nforce4 MB's (Biostar, Gigabyte) actually use Realtek 
'hardware'.  Although I could get nvidia drivers to 'function' with each 
MB, neither of them would work with Myth and the nvidia drivers...  I 
ended up getting the 'latest' Realtek drivers and alsa updates, and that 
worked great.


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