I use a pentium III 866 with 128 meg of ram. 1 20 gig drive and 1 120 gig drive (smaller drive is os/apps) nvidia geforce 2 with TV out ATI tv Wonder VE (but any bt878 based tv card will work) all of this in a rack mount ATX case (I have all my AV equipment rackmounted) CDrom drive... el-cheapo version
this allows me to record as divx, use the freevo box as my house's media server for mp3's and shows recorded. PLUS as my main CD ripper in the home. works great, it makes my freevo owning friends jealous. you CANT watch a recorded video while it is recording but that really is not an issue, and watching tv while recording is as simple as using the tv+cable box instead of using freevo to watch tv. basically I wanted a digital VCR, and freevo gave it to me. I also am sure there is enough processing power in there to serve my personal webpages and run misterhouse for home automation at the same time (although increasing ram would be a good idea at that point.) I use a custom-installed version of slackware for the OS install and I do NOT run any window manager (but i do run X for now... I think that the nvidia can run TV out in framebuffer without anything special...) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
