[mythtv-users] Getting ready to setup a new system

[James L. Paul]

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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 16:03, Dave Anderson wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm getting ready to setup a new MythTV system for the first time and
> wanted opinions on my hardware.
>
> I have an old Dell XPS PIII/650 MHz with 128 Meg Ram. I will up the ram to
> 265 Meg
> I'll be using the original 20 Gig HDD and an additional 180 Gig HDD.

Make sure your BIOS on that system will accomodate a HD that big.

> I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 coming.
> I have a PNY nVidia GeForce4 5600 Ultra coming.
> Sound card is Yamaha based.
> I also have a Pinnacle PCTV Pro I was thinking of adding in as a second
> tuner.
>
> I'm hoping the high end tuner and video will compensate for the lack of
> CPU. What do you all think? Will it work? I don't really care if I can't
> pause live tv, but it would be nice if I can. Maybe down the road I can get
> a faster cpu and use it as a backend for a few frontends located in the
> family room and bedrooms.

Pausing won't be a problem, it doesn't take CPU to _not_ play video. ;) I 
suspect the hardware encoding/decoding of the PVR-350 is the only reason you 
might get away not having more CPU. I'm curious to hear the results. :)
>
> Oh yeah, I plan to use RedHat 9.

I recommend not using the default window manager options (metacity.) Use fvwm, 
blackbox, or something similarly lightweight. I use blackbox on RH9. (So to 
speak... since I don't use a RH kernel or metacity/bluecurve, and most of my 
packages are installed with apt from fedora and freshrpms, am I really using 
RH9? It's more fair to say I used the RH9 installer. ;)
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