[mythtv-users] Need (suggestions for) lean mythfrontend

Johan johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be
Sun Jul 6 22:22:13 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:48 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2008 15:03:42 Johan wrote:
> > I put my hand on a mini PC, installed Ubuntu Hardy on it with Gnome
> > desktop and mythtv 0.21-fixes.
> > Unfortunately it seems a bit underpowered. The system monitor displayed
> > takes 100% CPU (25% for system monitor and 75% for Xorg). It actuall
> > runs myth fine, up to the moment an OSD is displayed, then audio starts
> > to crackle and errors appear in the log. Guess it's running at its max.
> >
> > So I need some recommendations to build a lean, custum built kernel and
> > if possible a minimized version of myth. All I need initially would be
> > the option to play live TV and recordings/movies. Nice to have: firefox
> 
> If you are interested in SD only you might look into the Media MVP.
> 
> The Mini Mac is also a possibility, as is Apple TV, though I'm not sure of the 
> status of that right now.
> 
> beww

thanks, but I believe MiniMac or Apple TV are hardware platforms
(correct me if I'm wrong), and I'm looking to get myth working on my own
platform.

Johan



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