[mythtv-users] How much horse power?

[Torsten Schenkel]

Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 15:57 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson:

> > Definitely crossed wires. Both my HD capture systems are dual PIII boxes, one 
> > with dual 500s, one with dual 600s (all hooked to 1.5TB of storage). My HD 
> > playback frontend is an Athlon XP 3200, 512MB of RAM and a GF FX 5200.
> 
> Why so much juice in your front-end CPU?

That's HDTV. While the HDTV content comes in as mpeg2 transport streams,
which more or less have only to be pushed to disk on the backend, the
frontend needs to decompress the data. About K7-2800+ seems to be the
minimum requirement for this.

Torsten