I've run MythTV on a 400Mhz system using a PVR-350 to take the video encoding load off of the CPU. <br><br>In theory, I believe most video cards that support XvMC may be able to do the same, although I don't have any firsthand experience with that. Can any one else comfirm or comment?
<br><br>The PVR-350 is not supported on MythTV 0.20, but the concept is not restricted to the PVR-350. If you can offload the video processing from the CPU, then a slow CPU is acceptable since it doesn't have to do much.
<br><br>-Pete<br><a href="http://www.mythpvr.com">http://www.mythpvr.com</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Monkey Pet</b> <<a href="mailto:monkeypet@gmail.com">monkeypet@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I run the frontend on the xbox (p3 733Mhz. I can tell you that it is a slow. Navigating the menus takes a few secs. Booting takes forever. However, once the stream starts, it is okay.
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On 10/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Henderson</b> <<a href="mailto:jchendo@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jchendo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div>
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Hi all.<br><br>I was doing some work at a customers place (i am a computer tech) and i noticed a P3 600 with a mini atx board attached sitting unused in a a box.<br><br>Coincidentally they have asked me to clean out the server room and throw away all the crap.
<br><br>So my question is this.<br>Is a P3 600 fast enough to run a V.20 frontend with open GL? <br><br>The reason I ask is that i could stuff that into a pretty box (WAF goes up !!!) and stuff a big Heat sink onto it, and probably net boot it from the server or something. Maybe get all spiffy and set the server and frontend to shutdown / hibernate when they are not being used.
<br><br>I have searched the list using the following terms "frontend specs", "minimum requirements" etc and turned up a heap for results from people using current components, but nothing in the era of this beasty.
<br><br>Now, I will max out the memory on the board (don't know what is will take but suspect 512 mb max)and stuff an FX5500 or similar onto it.<br><br>I currently run a P31gig 1gb ram and dual Digaital tv cards, so it seems like it will run.
<br><br>Anyone have any comments?<br><span><br>Chris<br><br>
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