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<DIV>I have a STB Velocity 4400, 16MB card with TV Out. For those that have commented, I'm running a PIII 450MHz computer with 320MB RAM, PVR-250. I did a minimal Fedora install, but still ended up with several of the linux services running. Everyone is right - KDE spawns lots of processes and uses lots of memory. I'm thinking about a lighter desktop or just booting to linux with X. The "slowness" that I referred to earlier may be KDE and X. I'll keep the group posted on what I find.</DIV>
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<DIV>What I've noticed is that mythbackend recording takes very little CPU. Watching live TV or while recording takes 65-70%. Memory is maxed at 320 MB. </DIV>
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<DIV>I'm beginning to feel that this is acceptable performance -not fast, but better than our old VCR. I'm almost considering moving this into our TV room.</DIV>
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<DIV>MythTv is really good. Thanks for all your help,</DIV>
<DIV>Don</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Andrew Dodd <atd7@cornell.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Quoting Donald McLennan <DMCLENNAN@PACBELL.NET>:<BR><BR>> Hi,<BR>> I have MythTV running on a 450Mhz computer with<BR>> PVR-250. Like other users with similar low end<BR>> configuration, Mythtv works, but is slow.<BR>> <BR>> Are there any suggestions on minimizing the cpu and<BR>> memory requirements by disabling various linux<BR>> services to get any better performance? What are the<BR>> minimal linux services that need to be running? <BR>> <BR>> Are there any key MythTV settings like picture size,<BR>> resolution, etc., that would improve performance?<BR>> <BR>> Would a PVR-350 card make any difference?<BR>> <BR>> Or, as others have commented, do I need a faster cpu?<BR>What video card do you have?<BR><BR>I used to have no trouble with DVD playback on a K6-2/500 (I have since<BR>upgraded...) - Linux MPEG decoders have come a long way
since then, and so have<BR>video cards. If you upgrade your video card (A GF4 MX440, for example), you<BR>should be able to get smooth playback with 720x480 MPEG.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing list<BR>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>