[mythtv-users] MythTV system I want to build

Shawn core at enodev.com
Mon Aug 11 10:46:03 EDT 2003


I guess I'd beef up the CPU so you can do realtime mpeg4. I'd buy an
Athlon barton core CPU.

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 21:58, William Lindner wrote:
> well, I've been messing with MythTV a whole lot, in fact I've been
> taking my spare time this summer to become experienced with Linux, and
> it's been great, now I am very interrested in making a dedicated Linux
> box for MythTV.  I just don't exactly know how the specs will work out
> and I don't think I wanna just buy it and then not have it be good
> enough to really use...  so here are the specs:
>  
> 1GHz AMD Athlon processor
> 512 MB DDR 333 RAM
> ATI TV Wonder VE tv tuner
> Western Digital 160Gig Hard Drive
> ECS K7VTA3 V3.1 Motherboard
> AC97 Audio Codec onboard Soundcard
> Real tek 8100/B LAN onboard network card
> GeForce 4 MX440se video card
>  
> those should be all that you need, I'm really just wondering how much
> performace I could get out of this system and suggestions are gladly
> accepted =).
>  
> I would also like to put in a nice 802.11g wireless card, it's a
> linksys and I already have the 802.11g wireless network...  I don't
> know if that would be supported though...  well, thanks in advance.
> 
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