[mythtv-users] MythTV system I want to build

[Joe V]

William,

You might want to consider either increasing the CPU,
or getting a hardware MPEG-2 encoder.

Right now, my MythTV machine is an Athlon 1.4GHz (not
an XP+ CPU), with 512MB SDRAM (old board, old CPU). 
My machine struggles to record and playback
simultaneously (i.e. live TV), dropping frames every
now and then.

Once I get some money, I'll probably be putting in an
Athlon CPU with an XP2400+ CPU (I live in the Bay Area
of California, so chances are I can find a
motherboard/CPU combo at Fry's for less than $100).

I believe that the consensus is that with a software
capture card (like the ATI one you mentioned) requires
1GHz for encoding, and an extra 500MHz for playback.

-- Joe

--- William Lindner <blazing-dragon at charter.net>
wrote:
> well, I've been messing with MythTV a whole lot, in
> fact I've been taking my spare time this summer to
> become experienced with Linux, and it's been great,
> now I am very interrested in making a dedicated
> Linux box for MythTV.  I just don't exactly know how
> the specs will work out and I don't think I wanna
> just buy it and then not have it be good enough to
> really use...  so here are the specs:
> 
> 1GHz AMD Athlon processor
> 512 MB DDR 333 RAM
> ATI TV Wonder VE tv tuner
> Western Digital 160Gig Hard Drive
> ECS K7VTA3 V3.1 Motherboard
> AC97 Audio Codec onboard Soundcard
> Real tek 8100/B LAN onboard network card
> GeForce 4 MX440se video card
> 
> those should be all that you need, I'm really just
> wondering how much performace I could get out of
> this system and suggestions are gladly accepted =).
> 
> I would also like to put in a nice 802.11g wireless
> card, it's a linksys and I already have the 802.11g
> wireless network...  I don't know if that would be
> supported though...  well, thanks in advance.>
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