[mythtv-users] Is my processor too weak for watching live TV video and DVDs?

Calvin Dodge caldodge at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 19:08:05 UTC 2007


On 6/25/07, Brad Patterson <bpatterson at espec.com> wrote:
>
>  Here are my machine specs:
>
>  AMD Athlon 850

IMHO, that's a little too weak for DVDs and Live TV (if Live TV is set
to high quality). My Mom's 600 MHz Pentium III is _just_ powerful
enough for Mpeg2 encoded at 2 Mbps, and IIRC DVDs are typically
encoded at 4 or 6 MBps.

So you _might_ get Live TV to work if you lower the quality to 2Mbps,
but I think you'll need something more powerful for DVDs.

Calvin


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