[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 00:34, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Ribe wrote:
> >         Another choice is an AMD processor on an NVIDIA chipset based
> >         motherboard. I have been playing with an AMD Athlon64 3200 on
> >         an ASUS
> >         A8N-VM CSM. Even without the NVIDIA XvMC support (it is broken
> >         in the
> >         drivers for the motherboard chipset), it has not trouble with
> >         SD.
> >
> >
> > I should hope not!   A  500Mhz PIII should do DVD res. MPEG-2.  256MB
> > of RAM helps things along, but you can get by with 128.  If you need
> > to do MPEG-4, something around 900Mhz is probably necesary.
>
> I'd beware of NVidia chipset motherboards.  NForce3 and NForce4 audio
> capabilities aren't completely supported in Alsa.  Especially if you're
> thinking about using the SPDIF to do AC3...
>
> Been bitten by this one too. ;)
>
> 	-I

been working fine for me, both an nForce3 and nForce4 motherboards.

-- 
Steve