Do you think I could run MythTV on seriously older hardware (PII-350)
if I'm willing to run it in resolution just adequate enough for a
2-inch diagonal?
You mean the playback ?
The playback typically doesn't take all that much resources.
The hard work is done at compression time, but it's relatively easy
(CPU wise) to uncompress.
Playback? Not exactly. I have to do the recordings first. The
compression can be delayed to a time when the CPU is idle. When I want
to play it back, I can uncompress first if I need to before watching it.
Yes but running it 'in resolution just adequate enough for a 2-inch
diagonal' is playback. And 2" depends greatly on your screen resolution.
If you're running 2048x1536 on a 15" monitor, than 2" is about 280x210
which should be easily doable on a P2-350 I would think. If you're
running lower resolutions, then your 2" is going to go up and it will
start to struggle (capture wise).
The main thing is that the recording itself has to be able to keep up,
as well as the playback. The compression and decompression is
relatively unimportant. If I have to sacrifice video or sound, I would
sooner sacrifice video. That's why I'm willing to record at a
resolution that would be appropriate for a very small window. I'd
rather not have jumpy video so smaller is OK. I'd really rather not
have jumpy audio.
This is why I use(d) different boxes for different tasks.
You can get an XBox to run VLC to do the playback for what, $100 ?
If you put a PVR250 (or whatever their current offering is) you don't
need much CPU at all to do the capturing, and fast, large disks are all
that is required.
my old tangerine iBook was the slowest computer I used to watch my
captures on, but being a PPC CPU, there's no straight comparison to a
PII-350
I don't know what is a PPC, but I imagine it is a fair sight better.
PowerPC, from IBM
You can't compare PPC with x86, cycle-for-cycle, so it's difficult to
say how it compares to a P2-350 for video playback.
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