[mythtv] Hardware configuration

[Johann Klemmack]

Heh - weird.  I have an Athlon 1700+ and I can NOT get jitter-free mpeg4 at
640x480.  I have a GeForce4 MX420 card, 512 RAM, off a VIA chipset with an
ATA100 harddrive, and WinTV.  Everything is running off of Redhat 8.0 (b/c
I'm a slacker).  I have DMA enabled for the harddrive access, but trying to
run mpeg4 at all pretty much peaks out my processor.  I've thought about
just upgrading my proc to an Athlon 2100+ (don't worry, the 1700+ will be
put to good use ;-) but by the sounds of this, something's wrong in my
system.  Any help on getting me jitter-free mpeg4?

Johann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Bruce Markey
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:37 AM
> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Hardware configuration
>
>
> Stephan Wentz wrote:
>  > ...celeron 1200, 512 mb ram...
>  > ...recording and timeshifting...
> > ...will this machine be fast enough to accomplish that?...
>
> Yes. 640x480 mpeg4 with the default settings should take
> about 70 some percent CPU utilization. you'll be able to
> timeshift, which is record and playback of a ringbuffer,
> and shouldn't see any jitter problems.
>
> --  bjm
>
>
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