On Tue, March 1, 2005 11:26 am, Joe Barnhart said: > > --- Bryce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I perfer to stick with AMD CPUs and >> preferably an AMD64. > > If you do any searches at all on Gossamer, you will > find that the Intel architecture is best suited for > decoding HD video. Like you, I am an AMD fan for most > of my boxes, but I had to admit defeat and get an > Intel P4 with hyperthreading for my HD KnoppMyth box. > The situation may have eased somewhat with 0.17, but > why build a system that's barely adequate to the task?
Really? I hadn't seen that. I'll have to do some more reading. (Like I don't have enough to research about this crazy project already! <grin>). I don't really have anything against Intel and usually spec my linux servers with dual Xeons. I just hate to pay the premium on Intel cpus for personal machines. > Oh, and your disk drive is way too small. HD eats up > video at 8G/hour. Your hard disk won't even hold a > week of programs. Oh I know, it's just a start. I figure I'll end up with 145-150GB of space for video, at 8G/hour that gives me 18 hours of HD storage. I don't have cable or anything so everything I grab will be "Network TV" and my wife and I watch no where near 18 hours a week of TV. I'll build a nice rackmounted backend in the basement sometime later. Thanks, -- Bryce T. Pier _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
