[mythtv-users] Absolute minimum backend hardware

[Kevin Kuphal]

Yan Seiner wrote:
> What is the absolute minimum backend hardware?
>
> 1.  MySQL is running on another machine
> 2.  Disk storage is on another machine
>
> The backend just has two tuners, a PVR150 and a pcHD3000.
>
> What can I get away with?  A PIII-733?  More? Less?
>
>   
With a hardware encoder, the backend can be very light.  A friend of 
mine was running his on an old 633-ish gateway PC using a PVR-150 no 
problem.  Now HD might tax an older hard disk in I/O but the processor 
shouldn't be an issue.

Kevin