Hi, has anyone tried using MythTV (or the tools on the KnoppMyth Distribution) to watch (yes no recording) TV on an old Pentium 150 Mhz?

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I think you are going to have a really hard time running anything on a Pentium 150 Mhz. You definately won't be doing any software encoding or decoding of TV. I am not even sure that would work with a PVR-350 which does the encoding and decoding in hardware. Do yourself a favor and round up a 1 Ghz machine somewhere and you will save yourself a lot of agony.

hi, just for everyones know-how: Installed SuSE 9.0 without all that KDE/Gnome stuff. Just plain X and xawtv. Works perfectly to watch tv. Now, if only my IR Remote worked.

Question: If I run the myth backend on another system, and the frondend on this pentium 150, might it work?

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What runs perfectly? Xawtv or MythTV? I am assuming you meant xawtv. Xawtv probably isn't doing any encoding/decoding that's why it runs okay, once you have MythTV installed and are trying to decode video I think the machine is going to grind to a halt.

yes it is not currently possible (probably never will be) to just watch tv with mythtv. it always encodes the stream saves it to disk then decodes it and plays it back.

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Have a question search the forum and have a look at the KnoppMythWiki.

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I have a Pentium II 400 MHz that I was going to use as a frontend. In the 'Watch recordings' screen, the preview windows plays but it is choppy. When I try to watch a show I get nothing but blank screen and mythfrontend locks up. I think the processor is just too slow to play the video. I record at 320x240 and neither MPEG4 or RTJPEG would play.

I don't think there is any way that a 150 MHz will work.

I am using a AMD K6 550 together with a PVR-350. This plays well without stuttering of chopping. The load is rarely over 20%. THe playback trough the 350 makes a big difference. I did that to get a low noise - living room compatible box.
The only issue with a slow CPU is the delay in drawing menues or especially the EPG.