On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No flames. > > The referenced web page (which I've read carefully several times) is talking > about system requirements for video. I'm interested in the minimum > requirements for a music only frontend. Basically, I'd only run mythmusic > with no visualizations. > > Slightly different. And, hopefully, different enough to prevent RTFM flames. > > If this question still seems too flame-able, then let's all agree that the > next and last post to this thread will be mine: reporting on the results of > the experiment with the aforementioned hardware. > > Agreed? > > -- > Christopher David Petersen > > > > On 5/4/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > I'm thinking about using an old laptop for a music-only frontend and I > have > > > a few questions: > > > > > > 1) Is a PII 366 and 128 MB really enough to run Linux and a MythTV > frontend? > > > How about a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB? > > > 2) What's an easy to install distro that has a small enough memory > footprint > > > for 128 MB? For 96MB? > > > 3) Can 802.11b handle streaming FLAC audio files via SMB from the > backend? > > > > > > > > > Having read the documentation and searched the list, I feel this machine > > > could do it, but before purchasing it, I'd like to get some empirical > data. > > > > Hi Christopher, > > > > no offense, but be prepared to be flamed. :) > > http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 > > there is a rough list of minimum requirements about a 1/8 way down the > page. > > > > your PII 366 may be able to handle recording and playback > > simultaneously if you are using one of the pvr cards. you could > > probably use this machine as a backend if all your cards were > > prv-X50's. i'd guess you'd need to bump up the RAM though. > > you 'may' be able to use the P200MMX for a backend as well since the > > pvr cards do all the encoding/decoding (?) for you. but i doubt it > > would work as a front end. > > > > PIII with 256MB RAM is the 'recommended' minimum. YMMV. > > good luck :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
Personally I think the last guy deserves flaming for not reading your post thoroughly before responding. :) It takes almost no CPU to play music, even FLAC decoding can be done on more modest processors than your old Pentium. Linux will run on anything, I think even KB of memory. The only problems I see would be the slowness of menus in loading a large music library. I'm certain your machine would make a fine music only frontend. I ran a video FE/BE on a 500MHz Celeron for a few months. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
