Andrew Close wrote:
the xBox front end only has 64MB, and that is shared memory between
the processor and video card. and i believe the processor is roughly
equivilent to a PIII 800 or so...
that said, what are the minimum requirements of a front end system
that is just used as a front end? obviously it needs some sort of tv
out (assuming you're connecting to tv) and audio out.
i've noticed some threads that say the front end usually needs to be
more powerful than the backend (assuming the backend is using one of
the pvr-x50 cards) because it has to decode the mpg2 streams.
any thoughts?
The requirements probably are the same for PVR-250 recording playback
and for playing back DVDs. It used to be that a 500mhz machine was all
they needed for DVD playback so I think that anything above that is
gravy. If you have XvMC and can get it working, the processor on the
frontend becomes secondary for MPEG-2 playback. For MPEG-4, I can say
I'm running on a PIII 450 with 128MB of RAM and can play it back just
fine.
Kevin
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