> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:01 AM > To: duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: MythTV and capture drivers for FC/RHL, rpms, HOWTOs and > lists > > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:46:00PM -0400, duncan brown wrote: > > about myth tv, i'm looking to get my 5 year old a new > computer (her's is > > an aging pII 300 (first gen, made in 97 i think) and it has > an EXCELLENT > > tv out. now, i've read that mythtv and freevo need something like a > > 1.8ghz box to work correctly, is that still true? > > Quoting from the VDR project, a PVR project similar to MythTV/freevo > centered around DVB capture cards, a 200MHz PC is enough! For > MythTV/freevo which are a bit more feature rich I would estimate a > higher lower bound. I also depends on whether you want to have > (optional) near to real time MPEG4 transcoding and so on. Huh? IIRC the guide I read that uses the ATrpms packages did use a haugepage capture card and it was a new high-end machine like an Athlon 2000+ or something.
