[mythtv-users] Possible to run this setup?

[me at blaue0.net]

Zitat von David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us>:

> For what it's worth, I have a machine running the frontend *and* backend
> with 256 megabytes of RAM (minus 8 megs for video RAM) and it works
> fine.  More memory would be desirable because Linux uses any "extra" RAM
> as disk cache, though.

Well the system will be diskless, so I guess I won't need any disk cache.

> The system is a VIA miniITX box, with a 1 GHz Nehemiah CPU.  It has a
> single tuner with MPEG2 hardware encoding.  MPEG2 playback (at 480x480)
> used roughly 50% CPU before I enabled the playback acceleration on the
> VIA chipset; after enabling that, it's less, more like 30% if I remember
> right.  Two caveats: This is analog TV, and I'm not doing transcoding.

If I understand correctly, my tuners (PVR-500, Pinnacle PCTV Pro and  
WinTV Go, all analogue) are all setup in my backend, so the frontend  
has just to play the streams it receives, is this correct?