[mythtv-users] MythTV system I want to build

[hayward at slothmud.org]

I've never used the ATI TV Wonder, but if it isn't a hardware mpeg 
encoder, I would suggest a faster processor.  (1.6ghz?).

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Brian

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, William Lindner 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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Brian Hayward