Just another datapoint: I have two freevo running on on an old dell PC, smp with 2 x 800 MHz Pentium III, 256 Mb of memory. I'm only using the webserver interface, but it is working fine memory wise. When transcoding to mpeg4 some patience is required.
On Friday 02 March 2007 19:12, Michel Hoogervorst wrote: > Off course the more the better, but if I look at my system, which runs with > 512MB ram (on Mandriva 2007, and without X) Freevo tells me there's about > 350MB free memory left after about 2 hours of recording. > > Playing video's is no problem at all (have not tried HD movies yet). > > 2007/3/2, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Stephen Rowles wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Quick question that someone might be able to help me with. > > > > > > I currently run freevo 1.6 on Fedora Core 6, with 256meg of ram! > > > > > > I think this causes me lots of bottlenecks and it certainly seems to > > > page a bit. I'm thinking of upgrading and wondering how much to put in. > > > Being as I run a via SP13000 I only get one slot, and my sexy lounge / > > > wife friendly case means only low profile ram = expensive! so I don't > > > want to buy more than I need. > > > > > > Is 512meg going to be enough? will 1gig be better? I'm not sure how > > > much memory Freevo can use to its advantage. Certainly it can get quite > > > slow at the moment and I would like to improve that. > > > > > > Also, for Freevo 2.0, when working on the pausing live TV, is there any > > > likelyhood that there will be an option to buffer in RAM rather than > > > the disk. I figure that with 1gig in the machine there ought to be > > > enough spare to do 15min buffer in ram, which would save the disk > > > access and > > > > noise! > > > > > Currently 1gig low profile 3200 dimm will cost be £90 inc vat. and > > > delivery... the other thing is doesn't anyone know somewhere cheaper I > > > can get it rather than mini-itx.com (UK), as I have a very limited > > > budget right now. > > > > 512MB should be enough. £90 seems a bit on the steep side, do you have a > > make/model of memory? > > > > Duncan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Freevo-users mailing list > > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
