[mythtv-users] Re: mythfrontend on cheap hw ;-)

[rawcd at softhome.net]

Jesse Guardiani writes: 

> On Sunday 18 September 2005 5:09 pm, rawcd at softhome.net wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> I want to make mythfrontend/diskless on old hardware
>> Whats the minimum cpu speed, ram  for mythfrontend ?
>> Celeron 400, 700 Mhz , 64, 128 RAM , geforce mx4 ?
>> Any suggestion?
> I've got fairly old hardware. 733mhz P3. PVR 350. Newest
> ivtv drivers (0.3.8). 512M RAM. It works very well. I can
> watch commercial DVDs with just 40% CPU utilization. Recording
> something and watching a DVD at the same time is possible
> with about 20% CPU idle.

<..> 

> I think you need at least a 700mhz to watch DVDs. If you
> don't want to watch DVDs, then you could probably go a
> bit lower. I think 400mhz might be the very lowest you
> could go. All depends on the graphics card you use. I
> think GeForce cards use a bit more CPU in general than
> the PVR 350.
 

I have AMD Barton 2600+ / 1G /Geeforce 6600 / SkyStar2 (DVB-S) and this 
machine would be mythbackend/fronted , NFS server 

Mythbackend - HW cheap us possible only CPU,RAM,GFX,eth
I want to watch live (DVB-S), watch some divx, and maybe watch some DVD 
(from mythbackend)