[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend
Kirby Bakken
kirby at magnaspeed.net
Wed Jan 4 06:04:14 UTC 2006
Paul Bender wrote:
> 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. ;)
>
>
> You are correct. I should have mentioned that. That is one of the
> advantages of the ASUS A8N-VM CSM board. While it has onboard audio,
> the on board audio is not the audio provided by the NVIDIA chipset.
>
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At least two Nforce4 MB's (Biostar, Gigabyte) actually use Realtek
'hardware'. Although I could get nvidia drivers to 'function' with each
MB, neither of them would work with Myth and the nvidia drivers... I
ended up getting the 'latest' Realtek drivers and alsa updates, and that
worked great.
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