[mythtv-users] Plan Validation

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 00:37:18 UTC 2007


On 06/06/07, Chandi Bernier <burni13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi guys,
>
> My main goal with MythTv is to watch DIVX movies and my second priority is
> watching LIVE TV.
>
> I currently own a P3-1000 512MB server that runs Gentoo Linux. I was
> planning to add a PVR-150 and a PCI GeForce FX5200.
>
> Do you think this could work fine ?

For playback of MPEG-2 media recorded with a PVR-150, your system will
be fine, especially if you use XvMC support in the nvidia driver
(although that is not required). For DivX playback with a P3 1GHz CPU,
you'd need to ensure the videos were standard definition - anything
larger than 640x480 and you're probably asking for trouble. Generally,
the processing requirement for playback of DivX/XVID material is
higher than for MPEG-2 material at the same resolution.

-- 
Nick

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