For the record, I just want to add that I've been using a less-capable system than your 1Ghz machine for some time. I have an Athlon 800 with 768MB of RAM (though I ran 256MB for a while). To be honest I didn't see any problems with my setup except for some random failures of Mythbackend (that were fixed with 0.18.1).
Now, note that I'm using hardware encoding with a PVR-250 rather than relying on a bt-type chip. I originally had a bt878 card but decided before I even installed MythTV that if I was going to do this I was going to do it right. Besides, my wife and kids have to use the thing! Anyway... you might find that just switching to a better capture card like a PVR-250 or its ilk might work well. Now, I realize you might not be willing to part with a little cash for the card but believe me if you want to make this work then it's worth it. Also, make sure you do some hard-drive tuning to get the max performance out of the hard drives you're using... I had problems with stuttering occasionally until I got down-and-dirty with hdparm to fix some of the HD problems. Now I have a bootup script that runs the hdparm parameters that I found worked best with video. I also found good-quality hard drives with a nice 8Mb buffer helped no end :) Hope this helps! Gavin On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 06:11 +0930, antec wrote: > thanks, John also had this to point out. I can now understand why the system > paused and the overheads involved. > > thanks. >
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