[mythtv-users] Output to h.264

[mike at grounded.net]

> If you're happy with the encoding in the form it arrives in, then
> there's not much work for the backend to do and an 850MHz system with
> 256MB of ram could do the job.  On the other hand, if you want to
> transcode the video or do commercial flagging, you would benefit from
> having a faster system.

Based on a plan thanks to this thread, I will have two backend servers. 
One will get it's source from a WinTV-Nova-HD-S2 Card and the second will be getting it from an Hauppauge HVR-1600 WinTV card. 
These two cards as input should allow me to build a mythtv setup to learn the basics. Would the 850Mhz/512MB servers be ok in this case? 

Then I would use the 2.8Ghz/1GB workstation as a front end only, no additional cards in it, for now.

Mike