[mythtv-users] iMac as possible Frontend?

[Wade Maxfield]

Jon wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> My daughter uses a 17" iMac G5 1.6 GHz. It does standard def without a
>> problem, but stutters on high def. I'm sure it just needs a tiny but
>> more speed to play back high-def smoothly.
>>
>> Off-topic: my dual 2Ghz PowerMacs don't do HD smoothly.
>>
>> On-topic,  I spent a fair amout of time with Myth on a 1Ghz G4  
>> iBook. I would *not* recommend it.
>>
>> In fact,  considering current market values (of used powerPC  
>> machines), I would not recommend running myth on any processor  
>> other than AMD or Intel.  Some people on this list are happy with  
>> their VIA setups, but I think they are happy because they work at  
>> all, not because of the performance.
> 
> I have to disagree with this. I run MythFrontend on my 1.33 ghz  
> PowerBook and it works great, even over the Airport Extreme (802.11g)  
> for SD. I can't say anything about HD, as I don't have any yet.

Fair enough to disagree, but a 1GHz G4 iBook is a far different beast to 
a 1.33GHz G4 PowerBook.

As another data point, a PowerMac G4 1GHz DP runs MythTV fine, it's just 
slow to launch, a little slow to start playing the video (over 100BT), 
and just a little slower to skip video then my MythDora Athlon64 3200+. 
Once playing it's fine though. And for a kids machine it would be more 
than adequate.

  - Wade