[mythtv-users] Athlon xp 2000+ enough for HD backend server?

[Yan Seiner]

Willy Boyd wrote:
> That requirement would be for the frontend not the backend (assuming
> separate machines, as he described).  It takes a lot of CPU to decode
> (read: play) the HD stream, but not to "record" it or if I'm not
> mistaken even to stream the data.
>   

Yup.  Until it died, my backend was a lowly PIII 1GHz SMP box; even when 
recording on both HD and analog, it rarely got above 5 or 10% CPU.  I am 
using a PVR150. 

--Yan