<div>No flames. </div>
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<div>The referenced web page (which I've read carefully several times) is talking about system requirements for video. I'm interested in the minimum requirements for a <strong>music only</strong> frontend. Basically, I'd only run mythmusic with no visualizations.
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<div>Slightly different. And, hopefully, different enough to prevent RTFM flames.</div>
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<div>If this question still seems too flame-able, then let's all agree that the next and last post to this thread will be mine: reporting on the results of the experiment with the aforementioned hardware.</div>
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<div>Agreed?</div>
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<div>Christopher David Petersen<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Close</b> <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen<br><<a href="mailto:christopher.david.petersen@gmail.com">christopher.david.petersen@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm thinking about using an old laptop for a music-only frontend and I have<br>> a few questions:<br>><br>> 1) Is a PII 366 and 128 MB really enough to run Linux and a MythTV frontend?<br>
> How about a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB?<br>> 2) What's an easy to install distro that has a small enough memory footprint<br>> for 128 MB? For 96MB?<br>> 3) Can 802.11b handle streaming FLAC audio files via SMB from the backend?
<br>><br>><br>> Having read the documentation and searched the list, I feel this machine<br>> could do it, but before purchasing it, I'd like to get some empirical data.<br><br>Hi Christopher,<br><br>no offense, but be prepared to be flamed. :)
<br><a href="http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1">http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1</a><br>there is a rough list of minimum requirements about a 1/8 way down the page.<br><br>your PII 366 may be able to handle recording and playback
<br>simultaneously if you are using one of the pvr cards. you could<br>probably use this machine as a backend if all your cards were<br>prv-X50's. i'd guess you'd need to bump up the RAM though.<br>you 'may' be able to use the P200MMX for a backend as well since the
<br>pvr cards do all the encoding/decoding (?) for you. but i doubt it<br>would work as a front end.<br><br>PIII with 256MB RAM is the 'recommended' minimum. YMMV.<br>good luck :)<br></blockquote></div><br>