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. > has anyone gottenthem to run on a lower end box? (she can do > capture on her computer now under windows without problems after i > enabled dma) otherwise it'll be just a divx/ogg box, but there are > worse things to havein the living room =] > > -d > > Axel Thimm said: > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:03:04PM -0400, Matt Morgan wrote: > >> [snip] > >> On 04/07/2004 04:04 PM, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > >> >If your video card is an ATIRadeon 8xxx or 9xxx series card ATI's > >> drivers will work (TV out and all). I'm using an ATI 9200 with > >> Mythtv (LOVE IT!) output display's fine on the TV, and using ATrpms > >> site for the YUM repository, it's as simple as yum install > >> mythtv-suite. They also have a great fedora-core HOW-TO at > >> mythtv.org. > > > >> I looked and couldn't find that fedora core how-to. Lots of great docs > >> though. If you could point me straight to the fedora doc, I'd > >> appreciate it. Thanks. > > > > Here are some links: > > > > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/install.html > > > > Any comments on mythtv itself, or the packaging of it are best posted at > > the relevant lists. For you embarking into the pleasent journey of > > runing a PVR on Linux I suggest the following lists: > > > > o ATrpms user list (packaging or Fedora Core/Red Hat Linux related): > > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users > > o MythTV user list (non-packaging, non-drivers issues): > > http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/ > > o ivtv user list (non-packaging issues about PVR x50): > > http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73219 > > o v4l list for bttv/saa7134/cx88 drivers > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > o DVB drivers > > http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/ > > > > Enjoy! :) > > > -+(duncan brown > -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net > > Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy > evidence of the fact. > > > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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