On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:45:48PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > 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. :) You can use as much power as you like, some processes like transcoding to MPEG4 will benefit from this. Nevertheless VDR often quotes the 200MHz hardware requirement (which I believe). I can't even test this requirement w/o breaking into a computer museum ;) Persoanlly I have been using MythTV on a Duron/700 w/o having any performance problems (but I never transcode or archive anything, it's capture, view, delete ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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