<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> I run a PIII 800mhz with 512mb of ram. I use a PVR-150 and the<br>> video is
<br>> fine. I believe that's about the lowest anyone should go.<br><br>So that would be MPEG-2 video. I've seen slower machines play DVDs<br>pretty well, and seen some really slow old Dell laptops with hardware<br>MPEG decoders that did pretty well at it.
<br><br>But I tend to agree with you that I certainly wouldn't purchase<br>anything much slower than you mention, and remember a Myth system has<br>to do other things besides playing back MPEG. I see that HogPaws<br>suggests a PIII 733 as a minimum for using a PVR-350, presumably
<br>using its output, and they suggest a PIII 1.2Ghz. for a PVR-150.</blockquote><div><br>
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Actually right now I'm running a PII 300mhz with 256mb RAM as a backend
with a PVR-150 and WinTV card. My frontend is a fanless 600mhz
Epia board. Now that I've got all the kinks worked out over the
past two weeks they're working fine. Obviously I try not to use
the WinTV tuner as much as I can avoid, but I don't tend to need two
tuners that often anyway and I'm just waiting to pick up a second 150.<br>
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-Mike<br>
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