You can get by with that video card. It is really just displaying the picture.<br><br>What you do need to look into is getting a capture card, firewire card, etc.<br><br>How are you looking to connect? <br><br>You can most likely squeeze by on the 512MB too.
<br><br>A PIII/800MHz system with 512MB RAM can encode one video
stream using the RTjpeg codec with 480x480 capture resolution and play it back
simultaneously, thereby allowing live TV watching.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">mythtvster</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtvster@gmail.com">mythtvster@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 am looking for advice on a system I have laying around that I would
like to use as a PVR. I have an old Dell Dimension Pentium III
collecting dust that I would like to upgrade to use solely as a PVR. It
only has an onboard video card and 128MB RAM so this would have to be
upgraded correct?<br>
<br>
Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I
need a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I
would like to hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if at
all possible - do they even make a vanilla PCI card (with Linux drivers available) that will handle
this? <br>
<br>
I plan on bulking the memory up to 512 (it's max), will this be sufficient?<br><br>Would this system be OK for a backend? I do not not want to dump a whole lot into it (including time) if the core system is not good enough.
<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br>
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