--- Torbjørn Heltne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is pretty hard to decide which MB, case etc to > buy. In the meantime I > want to familiarize myself with MythTV, so I have > installed the other HW > (pvr-350,DVD-burner/hard disk) in a somewhat retired > workhorse (P3/500 > w/384MB). > > From what I understand that should be plenty > horsepower to run MythTV > because of the pvr-350. Right?
Basic functions will work well with this machine. I had a similar setup, only with a Celeron 566, and it worked basically OK. Here are some weaknesses you will find: 1) The responsiveness of the GUI will be slow. Frequently, when you start to change a channel or browse the menus, there will be a delay as Myth checks the MySQL db and reads files, etc. 2) When I was using the Celeron, yuv/xv was not available for the 350 - now it is with the later ivtv versions. I would guess that transcoded recordings will play OK on your machine. If you transcode in the background, you may not notice how long it takes to do so (which, with your machine, may be 3-4 times the length of the video or more). 3) Music ripping will take a long time due to the slow processor. As of 0.18.1, you still can't do things in parallel in Myth, so you'll have to wait ~1 hour if you are ripping a CD. 4) Ripping a DVD may take a long time. 5) Transcoding down the mpeg2s, mpeg4s, etc using mencoder, transcode, ffmpeg, etc. to make dvd-compatible files may take a really long time. In some cases (depending on what you're doing and how you're doing it) you may have to wait possibly even a day to do some transcoding stuff. HOWEVER, if you simply remultiplex mpeg2 files written from the PVR 350 straight to DVD format, it won't take that long. Around 1 hour to do a 2 hour movie. 6) Mythgallery will tend to be a little slow. If you are using it to view largish (>500kB) jpegs, the imagemagick routines will delay you a couple/few seconds to show you the resized images. All in all, it should work fine. Just certain things will take longer than you want them to. When the hard drive in my Celeron 566 bit the dust, I took the opportunity to upgrade to a 2.4GHz P4, even though I was using a P350. I'm actually pretty glad I did that. Much more responsive. Also, if you are going to compile everything (which eventually I learned to do) the makes can take absolutely forever. Much patience is advised. For the rest, I have no helpful information as I use SuSE for my Myth box (*not* recommended, actually). As I said, I mostly compile everything Myth needs. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
