[mythtv-users] Frontend box PII-450 too slow to view MPEG-2?

Audio Phile da_audiophile at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 16 17:05:25 EST 2004


I read the hardware section
(http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1)
on the main mythtv page, but it doesn't mention my
specific hardware.  Anyone out there using a PII-450
or something else similarly underpowered?  

All I want this system to do is act as a frontend and
play MPEG-2 files (5000 kbps/7500 max) my backend
server's PVR-250 has created.  When I try to view
them, the video and audio is very choppy.  Is this
setup just too slow, or is there some setting I should
enable?

Hardware specs: PII-450 on a 440BX board.  Onboard 4
meg S3 Trio 3D video, 512 meg EDO RAM, 12 gig HD (I
think it's ATA/33 since that's all the BIOS can
support but I do not know for sure), SB Live and 3COM
10/100 NIC.

Thanks all! 


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