[mythtv-users] Minimum front end specs.....

Peter A. Daly petedaly at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 17:48:35 UTC 2006


First paragraph meant to say:
I've run MythTV on a 400Mhz system using a PVR-350 to take the video
_de_coding load off of the CPU.


On 10/15/06, Peter A. Daly <petedaly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've run MythTV on a 400Mhz system using a PVR-350 to take the video
> encoding load off of the CPU.
>
> In theory, I believe most video cards that support XvMC may be able to do
> the same, although I don't have any firsthand experience with that.  Can any
> one else comfirm or comment?
>
> The PVR-350 is not supported on MythTV 0.20, but the concept is not
> restricted to the PVR-350.  If you can offload the video processing from the
> CPU, then a slow CPU is acceptable since it doesn't have to do much.
>
> -Pete
> http://www.mythpvr.com
>
> On 10/15/06, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > I run the frontend on the xbox (p3 733Mhz.  I can tell you that it is a
> > slow.  Navigating the menus takes a few secs.  Booting takes forever.
> > However, once the stream starts, it is okay.
> >
> > On 10/14/06, Chris Henderson <jchendo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I was doing some work at a customers place (i am a computer tech) and
> > > i noticed a P3 600 with a mini atx board attached sitting unused in a a box.
> > >
> > > Coincidentally they have asked me to clean out the server room and
> > > throw away all the crap.
> > >
> > > So my question is this.
> > > Is a P3 600 fast enough to run a V.20 frontend with open GL?
> > >
> > > The reason I ask is that i could stuff that into a pretty box (WAF
> > > goes up !!!) and stuff a big Heat sink onto it, and probably net boot it
> > > from the server or something. Maybe get all spiffy and set the server and
> > > frontend to shutdown / hibernate when they are not being used.
> > >
> > > I have searched the list using the following terms "frontend specs",
> > > "minimum requirements" etc and turned up a heap for results from people
> > > using current components, but nothing in the era of this beasty.
> > >
> > > Now, I will max out the memory on the board (don't know what is will
> > > take but suspect 512 mb max)and stuff an FX5500 or similar onto it.
> > >
> > > I currently run a P31gig 1gb ram and dual Digaital tv cards, so it
> > > seems like it will run.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any comments?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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