>-- Original Message -- >From: Matthieu Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:38:38 +0200 >Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] building a freevo box from scratch---hardware >choices > > >On Wed 14.01.2004 at 07:25:30AM -0500, William Morgan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am planning to build a dedicated Freevo box from scratch. I'm trying > to do it in less than US $650---the price of a new Tivo with a lifetime > subscription. > > > would like comments on the hardware I'm thinking about. Is it too > little? Too much? Known incompatibilities, etc? > > Here's the list: > > * Shuttle SK41G. This thing is several years old now (has the VIA KM266 > bridge) but is cheap. http >//us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=285 > > * Athlon XP 1700 or 2400 or something in between. > > * Matrox G400 Max AGP card. This seems to have the best TV out > support, am I right? > > * Hauppauge WinTV-Radio (#401). Has remote. > > > * hard drive, dvd burner, 512mb ram, blah blah blah. > > Is this sufficient to, say, record incoming TV while watching something > from disk or playing Oggs? Any obvious gotchas in hardware support in > the above?
My Athlon XP 2200+ uses 50% >CPU when recording from TV using mencoder, lavcodec with B frames and vhq enabled in 512x384 and VBR MP3 audio. It uses 20% CPU with default Freevo encoding options, in the same format. If you manage to get the xmga or mga output driver in mplayer >to work, mplayer should take no more than a couple % of CPU time, so watching and recording at the same time will work. Be careful, HDD can be noisy (Barracudas are very silent, though), but my DVD drive (not burner) is a pain in the ass from the >point of view of noise. I've heard that recent DVD (and maybe CD) drives cannot be slowed down (using setcd -x or hdparm -E) as I intended to do. I'm thus looking for another DVD drive. Matthieu The Nec ND1300A DVD+-RW drive that I tested this week does slown down with hdparm -E Bart ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
