[mythtv-users] Opinions on using a RAQ4 as a backend?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/15/2006 11:26 AM, Dewey Smolka wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Andrew Welch <andy at skawl.plus.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've got a Cobalt Raq4r lying around, and I'm wondering if I upgraded
>> the processor to an AMD K6-2 500Mhz processor, 512meg RAM, and put a
>> PVR-150 encoder card in would it be able to perform as a pure backend tv
>> recording server?
>>     
>
> This will work for recording, but database operations will be a bit
> pokey. Comm flagging and transcoding will be extremely slow. That
> said, my first system was a K6-2 400. No problem recording with a PVR
> 250, but couldn't handle playback.
>   
>> No graphics card on it obviously! I'm just trying to build a system that
>> can record tv shows while I'm out.
>>     
> Note, however, that you will need to run
^H^H^Hinstall
>  an X server
^H^H^H^H^H^Hclient libraries
>  for mythtv
-
> setup.
> Once that's done (and you have everything else properly configured),
> you can control scheduling via the frontend or Mythweb.


You never need to run an X server on the machine.  You only need to have 
the X client libraries installed.  You'll need an X server on some 
machine, but can easily configure using SSH X forwarding:

ssh -Y mythraq

and then type your mythfrontend command.

Mike