On 04/09/2004 08:26 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:45:48PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:According to a page (http://mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo) on mythtv.org, a pIII 500 should be about the minimum for live TV, which requires concurrent encoding and decoding. On the same page, though, he says he had a pIII 550 which was too slow for it to work quite right. Clearly it'll depend on RAM to some degree I imagine you really want to avoid swapping).
Huh? IIRC the guide I read that uses the ATrpms packagesQuoting 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.
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 ;)
Live TV is what you want if you want to skip commercials. Of course if you don't mind commercials you can always just watch TV live, without the MythTV or Freevo, by taking it out of the video cabling chain. So if all you want to do is record shows and watch them later, then it sounds like something slower than a 550 might work.
