Yes, if you use one of those newly support WinTV cards with hardware compression, your 500MHz should be more than enough to store the stream while sharing something else. I don't know if you'd run into any problems with time-shifting -- don't know if playback is also in hardware and independent of recording... but I used a basic tv tuner in my older 350MHz, and since it had AGP the overlay mode was fabulous for watching although that wouldn't do for software-based encoding.
I'm upgrading my processor soon, and should be able to handle software encoding fully with my regular old tuner card, and so might check out the mythtv interface this summer... or fall... catcha round ( = ciao Ben B http://benb.org On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:34:50 -0700 Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Let us know how it goes. I'm interested in this. | | Do you think my old AMD K6-2 500 can handle the task? | Does MythTV ask the hardware to compress the video if it's able? I | noticed some of those WinTV cards have hardware compression. | | Thanks, | Rob | | > On 20030609.2216, Mr O said ... | > | > MythTV is alive!! | > 0.9 was released today. The documentation is relatively | > thorough. I'm trying to record a show now. Got the xmltv stuff | > going too which mythtv uses to automagically pull in program | > info. The only trouble is... will having a PVR lead to me | > watching TV? | > | > :) More to come. | > | > Mr O. | > | > __________________________________ | > Do you Yahoo!? | > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). | > http://calendar.yahoo.com | > _______________________________________________ | > EuG-LUG mailing list | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
