[mythtv-users] PII 450 system

[Allen T. Gilliland IV]

Is mythtv even capable of taking advantage of dual
processor systems?  You obviously need kernel smp
support, but doesn't the application also have to have
its own smp support?

Yeah ... a pII 450 with a PVR-250 ought to work fine
for recording, but you won't do very well with
playback since decoding takes a number of cycles as
well.  I do recordings in mpeg4 at 640x480 with high
settings and I haven't been able to get my xbox to
play back smoothly yet.  So thats a pIII 733.


--- Brian Foddy <bfoddy at visi.com> wrote:
> A p2-450 will not be able to DECODE a full 640x480
> picture,
> mine (a dual p2-450) seems to limit out abotu
> 592x480, for
> playback the dual cpu isn't too much of an
> advantage, so
> figure about 480x480 give or take.  Recording is no
> problem
> if you have decent disks.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Simon Martin-Dye wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am trying to build a cheap MythTV system out of
> my discarded computer components.  I have a PII 450
> with 384MB ram.  Do you guys
> > recommend using the PVR-250 since it has hardware
> decoding for live TV? What TV out card should I use
> - does it matter?
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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