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| Author: | Demosthenes [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Seeking hardware advice. |
I am looking into setting up a KnoppMyth box with a Hauppauge 350 card in it. However, I am wondering about the hardware required to watch, record, and play back TV in a no-monitor setting; i.e. all of the display is on the TV. Now, I have several hardware setups to choose from here at home. One is a less powerful Pentium II based system, which I would prefer to use; however, I'm not sure it would be fast enough to handle the demands placed on it even with the hardware MPEG-2 encoder the chip features. The other is my gaming PC, which I never actually game on (ironic, isn't it?). It's got an Athlon 2200+ in it, with 512 MB of RAM. Assuming both would work with KnoppMyth and MythTV, will the slower machine be enough to watch/record/playback TV? I apologize if I should have searched better; all I've done is read the stickies in here, which seemed to be the most appropriate section for this question. |
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| Author: | aovermy [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:52 pm ] |
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Well, the PVR 350 offloads both MPEG2 encoding and MPEG2 decoding quite nicely. I've got one in a slot A athlon AMD800 at my vac cabin and have cycles to spare, so it might be enough. At my home I had a slave backend in a PII-350 for a while which had a HD3000 tuner in it with no problem. The only thing I can think to worry about would be is it able to run mysql for the mythfilldatabase and can it flag commercials fast enough. |
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