On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:02:30PM -0800, Jeff Dooley wrote: > > --- Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > As always, price is a concern > <snip> > > Later I'll need a wireless card for the Myth box, I suppose. > > > A word of note, or possibly a question for the price-conscious Myth > users. > > I tried out MythTV on my 800MHz orig. Athlon box. Naturally, it was > an extra box I had laying around (possibly of dubious quality), but I > was disappointed to find out that this box did not be quite harness > enough horsepower to use MythTV smoothly. I did try recording and > playback asynchronously, recording without compression, check for dma > on my hardrive, 256MB RAM, but still not enough to get smooth video. > > This doc has some datapoints for the curious, > (http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1), but I guess > my machine is just outside the limits.
Thanks for the tip and the URL. Part of what has held me back has been the understanding that I'd need to go out the door with better HW than I'm used to. I figure a 2 GHz MB at least. Fortunately they're getting affordable. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
