On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Axel Thimm wrote: > 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. yeah, if your capture card is already ouputing mpeg-2 (dvb or a hauppuage pvr250 or similar) then of course encoding in software isn't required. > > 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. > > > > > > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
