[mythtv-users] CPU Opinions

[Jason White]

I've got a PIII-700 that I'm using with the PVR-250 with 384M RAM.  I've
got the PVR set at it's maximum resolution.  The CPU spins at around
60-65% when watching live TV but it's able to keep up and the picture
looks as good as what I'm pulling straight off the cable.  The only time
that it affects my video is sometimes when pulling up the on screen
guide it bogs down a bit and tends to skip frames.  I tweaked down the
alpha blending and it helped but didn't fix it.  May try the MySQL 4
caching at some point (using 3.x right now and since it's more or less
working I'm not ready for the upgrade).  The bottom line is that I don't
think that your processor is the problem...I've at least been pretty
successful with my 700.

The X-Box uses a 733 and a lot of people have been successful using it
as a front end but they aren't doing encoding on that machine at the
same time.  Just thought I'd throw that out as another data point.

Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Shay - MythTV
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:30 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] CPU Opinions
> 
> 
> OK, so how about a 750 mhz chip?  I'm getting some poor picture
quality
> and
> I'm wondering if its the CPU..  I'm using a pvr-250 so the recording
> should
> be fine.. I stress should as I probably have a setting wrong
> somewhere..  but anyone tried it with that slow of a cpu?
> 
> -Shay
> 
> At 02:48 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote:
> >On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 09:56 US/Pacific, Shay - MythTV wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Before you say it, Yes I know there is some info on the HOWTO..  but
I
> >>want 'your' opinion..  what size cpu do you think is needed to
record
> >>with a PVR-250 and watch a pre-recorded show at the same time?
> >
> >My Athlon XP 1700 has no problems whatsoever doing just that.
> >
> >--Jarod
> >
> >--
> >Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
> >
> >Got a question? Read this first...
> >http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >
> >MythTV, Red Hat Linux 9 & ATrpms documentation:
> >http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250
> >
> >
> >
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