[mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

[Justin The Cynical]

On Tue, January 24, 2006 10:14, Raphael Pooser wrote:

*snip*

> In reality, encoding/decoding is computationally intensive, and at the
> same time you need bandwidth as these actions involve streaming.  since
> Celeron is piss poor at floating point and has no bandwidth to access
> the RAM, it must suck for HD on HTPCs.  However, if anyone is using one
> successfully I'd like to know.

I've got one in the current Myth machine.

2 gig socket 478, machine is a FE/BE, SD broadcast, Avermedia M179.

Playback takes about 50% of the CPU.

My first build was a software encoding card on a much earlier verison of
Myth, and the machine could /just/ play and record at the same time.

IMO, for a remote FE, a "fast" Celeron will work fine for SD broadcast.