I have been running Myth for about a year now on an Athlon-based system I build using Jarod's guide. It runs well but is a little slow with things like transcoding, nuvexport, etc. So I decided to upgrade. I've bought the components to build a Pentium D dual core system since it will enable me to drop in a core 2 Duo when the prices come down, along with 2GB of RAM and a fanless GeForce 7300LE PCI Express card. I'm going to reuse my PVR-250 and a 300GB IDE drive from my old myth machine in this new box.
<br><br>I'd like to run the new 0.20.2 rev, and I'd like to be able to use mythstreamtv, myth2ipod, mythiptv, mytharchive, and nuvexport. For now I'll be using a single FE/BE combo, but this machine may end up becoming a dedicated backend. It's going to be SD at first but I will upgrade to HD within the next six months. I'm somewhat comfortable with Linux but I'm by no means a guru. I won't be editing any source code and I'm still a little leery about compiling packages on my own.
<br><br>That being said, does anybody have any recommendations on the best setup to use for my new system? I like Mythdora's ease of install but I'm wondering if updating or adding anything to it will break the whole package. Installing via Jarod's HOWTO seems to be more flexible but it's still a bit painful to do. And finally I'd like to take advantage of my dual-core system, and I've seen murmurs that some apps like Mplayer aren't multithreaded unless they're compiled as such. I would love to hear other users' thoughts on this before I dive into an install this weekend. Thanks in advance.
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