--- Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:00:19 -0800 (PST), Andrew > Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are links to other "low end" MythTV projects > > included and a discussion of my project. I'd like > to > > include other peoples low end MythTV projects so > reply > > here or send me a message offline. > > I just built a low-end machine for a co-worker. By > Low-end I mean what > I would consider the be the bare minimum. Her own > hardare, P2-300. I > put 512M of my own ram into it, and we bought a > PVR-250 the lowest end > PCI Nvidia card we could get XvMC in. (Think it was > an MX4000). > > I shut off everything animated I could come up with, > reduced all > "pretty" options to their lowest settings. > > Overall, the playback and recording are flawless at > 720x480 MPEG2. > Commercial flagging takes roughly 8 hours for 1 hr > of video. Menus, > etc, are slow to come up, drop off. > > She understands putting more horsepower in would go > a long ways, but > she's happy for the little bit she had to spend so > far. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
Hi Blammo, Did you write up your bench notes from the install? Do you have a webpage or are you considering putting one up? Definitely, adding XvMC capable video cards (NVidia) and PVR-250 are going to make almost any PC perform as a PVR. They help tremendously with offloading CPU intensive tasks. If you do want to publish a page or just write one up please send me a link. I'd like to see how you did it. Thanks! Andrew Lynch
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