Exactly what it says at the top, how capable is a Pentium 600MHZ Computer with 368 MB's of RAM and a WinTVR PVR 350 at running KnoppMyth.

Thanks for any response

-Brian

Yes. However, the PVR 350 isn't a video card. If you expect to use it's TV out, don't expect it to scream with anything other than MPEG-2.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I didn't know that, thanks a lot...I'm sure you saved me hours of frustration. I have an old S3 Virge GX/2 with a TV-out, but as far as I know the TV-out will not work in linux, even the S3 Savage's TV-out does. Anyone have any info on this?

Thanks again,
Brian

Hi,

Try it, if you already have the hardware it would have no cost factor except time and that can be added to the learning experience bank. I think you will like most of what you see. Tv out would be best way to go.

Mike

It will work great for recording and playing back NTSC or PAL analog TV shows. For a couple years I ran a 1GHz C3 (which is probably slower than a 600MHz P3), and it had absolutely no problem recording and replaying MPEG2 files.

What probably won't work:

• Viisualizations in MythMusic. The fancy OpenGL based ones will run at a 1-2 frames per second and suck up so much CPU that anything being recorded at the same time will have problems.
  
• Playing back high-definition video files with mplayer or xine is going to be marginal. Now that ivtv supports Xv, it will probably work for standard/low definition stuff, but I don't think it's going to be able to decode and scale HD video.

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Grant

I don't actually have the hardware yet, I wanted to make sure it would work. I didn't think it would work nearly as well as it apparently does. Visualizations and HD Videos aren't high on my priorities.

Thanks a lot for the help.
-Brian