[mythtv-users] What hardware do I need to be able to dual record using Comcast cable?

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Janne Grunau <janne-mythtv at grunau.be> wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2008 16:25:36 Robin Hill wrote:
>> On Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 08:04:56AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
>> > I have not tried running an OS written for a 32-bit chip on a
>> > 64-bit chip, but even if this worked, it seems to me that I would
>> > be sacrificing some of the chip's performance to do this, and since
>> > the whole idea of moving to a 64-bit chip is to get better
>> > performance, this strikes me as throwing the baby out with the bath
>> > water. Sounds like I would have to make a tradeoff between
>> > stability and performance, and I'd really rather not have that on
>> > my Myth system. Thus my desire to avoid going to a 64-bit chip.
>
> I haven't seen any 64 bit related stability problems and amd64 is around
> long and common enough so that most issue should be resolved by now.
>
I have used amd64 mode since 2003 on linux at work and by now I have
possibly 3 machines out of a dozen or so that are running are 32 bit
only because these machines have enough cpu power for the task they
are doing. As for 64 bit related problems aside from flash, I do not
see any but I did not see any in 2003. I guess running gentoo helps in
this respect since we compile everything from source. With that said
only 1 of our 64 bit machines is running in 64 bit mode under windows.
There were far too many problems with this test machine to roll 64 bit
on everyone...

John