[mythtv-users] Frontend/backend with PVR-250, 350, and Celeron400 mhz?

[John Wells]

K.R. Foley said:
> John,
>
> I am running on PII 300 with 512Mb and a pvr-350 and it does the backend
and frontend for watching and recording live tv without breaking a
sweat. Don't know about adding another pvr for input though if that's
what you had in mind.
>
> While on this subject can anyone provide info on using the pvr-350 to do
hardware decoding of dvds? The little 300Mhz just can't handle the load
of doing it in software.


I wonder about the minimum requirements for the board itself.  I know it
has to support DMA (i'm checking...), but another thing that concerns me
is that I believe the box has only a 90 watt power supply...two PVR cards
might be a drain...I don't know for sure...

Thanks!
John