[mythtv-users] ASUS Pundit Front/Backend System w/o PVR250/350:Config Suggestions?

[Frank Eberle]

Hello,

> I can purchase a Pundit in my own city (conveniently), but I am somewhat
> at a loss on how to configure it -- especially for CPU speed.  Now, to
> my chagrin, I read many postings in the MythTV users group about folks
> with the Pundit -- but using the PVR250 and/or PVR350!  I would have
> thought that a sufficiently fast CPU would make this unnecessary
> (perhaps excluding the other good things that these cards offer).  So, I
> would appreciate some comments on:
> 
> 1) Suggested CPU and speed for a Pundit system that will not include a
> PVR250/350 board

I'm running MythTV on a Pundit since a few week. I've installed a 2GHz 
Celeron CPU and 256MByte RAM and a bttv848 based TV-card. I can watch 
live tv with MPEG-4 and 640x480 resolution (bidrate 3000bits/s) with a 
CPU load of 80%. Other stuff like nvram-wakeup or the integrated PCMCIA 
slot is working great.
At the beginning I've had some audio problems but maybe this problems 
are related to SuSE 9.0. After playing with the settings in the alsa 
mixer I've got the audio running correctly.


Frank