[mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

[Stewart]

Hmm,  I'm running on an old FIC-SD11 Mainboard with a Slot-A Athlon 950.  I've got 384 Megs of RAM 
in it.  As for encoders/decoders, I'm running a 350 and using the hardware output.  I also have a 
500 and all three tuners are working well, now that I got IVTV 0.4.2 installed (I had the new 
samsung encoders)

Occasionally, the front end stutters a bit, but overall it's doing really well.  I'll be upgrading 
the RAM soon (The main board can only handle 768MB) and I'll see if that improves it.  I've got the 
system and an archive partition on a 60GB drive and a 300GB drive for storing recordings.  The only 
slowdown is when the hard drive swings around a bit.  I figure the system swapping is what's causing 
the stutter, so the mem upgrade should really help...

You don't need much hardware for this stuff.

Stewart Larsen

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Justin The Cynical wrote:
> 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.
> 
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