[mythtv-users] Cheap Possible Frontend

[Mike Angstadt]

>
> Wow, I guess you aren't running very good quality on the WinTV, but
> at least you don't have the load of decoding the compressed video.
>
> Do you have to fend off the guys from the Smithsonian who come around
> wanting to conserve your B/E?
>
> Actually a PII is a very powerful machine, we are all jaded by the
> more recent CPUs mandated by the bloatware foisted off on us. Even a
> 486 is a very pretty good CPU. I remember the first AutoCad system we
> bought at work, we had to decide between the 33Mhz. 386/387 system,
> or the "screamer",a 25Mhz. 486. I remember running AC release 9 or so
> on an 8Mhz. 8088 with an 8087 and I thought it was pretty fast. Paid
> around $100 for that 8087 in 1985, and it was obsolete then.
>
> They *were* fast CPUs, it's just that they got even faster.
>
> With PVR cards I would think the only CPU you'd need for a B/E would
> be enough to handle the I/O and the database. You could run commflag
> jobs at a low enough priority that it wouldn't bother you, so what if
> you have to wait 3 days for the program to be ready to watch
> commercial free ?


Well, I don't have any hard stats on it, but everytime I've gone to watch a
show like 6 or 8 hours later (or more frequently the next day) the
commercial flagging is done.

But yeah, I avoid the WinTV whenever possible :)

-Mike
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