[mythtv-users] Watching web streams?

[Brian Wood]

On Monday 22 June 2009 14:53:37 Jim Morton wrote:

> Yes it is 64bit. I've just been looking at Virtualbox but I have zero
> experience with VM. I wonder if I could run WinXP-32bit in a VM on
> Ubuntu-64bit...

Probably. I'm running 3 virtual XP machines on a 64-bit Debian Lenny machine.

VirtualBox is probably the easiest of the VM solutions to get started with, 
though VMWare is close. Something like Xen is a little harder to get started 
with.

> My other Windows machines aren't beefy enough to render a watchable
> show. We're talking 1Ghz, single core era, and with the $$ I just put
> into the Myth box it is going to be a while before I can upgrade them.
> Thanks!

The server I'm running VirtualBox on is a pair of Opteron 275s (dual core 
chips) with 12GB of RAM. The XP virtual machines are fast enough to transcode 
in real time, but are close to being maxed out.

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Brian Wood
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