> Chad, as I mentioned to Michael it helps to have specific details. > I've always been interested in finding the real lower-end hardware > able to be a front end. There are a lot of reports about what "should" > be a working solution, but few objective results are posted. If you > don't mind please let us know memory, CPU, idle, Decibels leve, etc. > info on playing TV, DVD, etc. Obviously for a frontend only I don't > think capturing, encoding and commercial flagging info is needed. > > Alberto > >
Sure thing, I'll do a lspci when I get home, and a cat /proc/cpuinfo along with free. But to throw out a guess from memory until I get home: P3 866 128 MB RAM All integrated mobo, intel chipset. Audio decibels levels, really couldn't tell you. It does sound decent enough coming out of the TV speakers (set to normal volume, not cranked up), but through the simulated surround occasionally you can tell it's not "quality" hardware (hence the reason at looking for better soundcards). It's only got a CD-ROM drive in there, but playback of ripped DVD's via mythvideo seems to work decent enough. As I mentioned above, there is some... slowing. The best way to describe it is hesitation once a button is pressed, but I attribute this to the fact that these systems are older hardware and were cheap, so I feel it was a worthwhile trade (price for speed). It's not unbearable by any means, I can simply tell a difference when I was using an AMD64 3200 to this P3 866. I'll post the specs when I get home in an hour or so. Chad _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
