[mythtv-users] PII 333mhz laptop as frontend?

Craig M. Gelowitz craig at reg.trlabs.ca
Tue Dec 7 19:41:54 UTC 2004


As said below, it does depend on your real-time processing tasks... like 
resolution/bit rate etc..

I can tell you from experience that I'm using a 300 MHz processor 
overclocked to about 390 MHz and I am using it as a frontend in one of 
my bedrooms.

I am also using MPG4 at 4.4 Mb/s transferring it over my 802.11b (yes.. 
I said b) and it works just about flawlessly.

Cheers!


Mark J. Small wrote:

>On December 7, 2004 02:12 pm, Calvin Gorriaran wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a PII 333mhz laptop with around 256mb of RAM. It has a ati rage
>>mobility card for video. What do you think the chances of getting
>>mythfrontend to run well on it? All it would be doing is mythfrontend, no
>>other services or tasks. It is basically just for use in my bedroom.
>>
>>
>>Cal
>>    
>>
>
>It depends mostly on your recording settings.  If you are doing mpeg2 at 
>320X240, then there should be no problem.  If you have superhighres mpeg4, 
>then you are out of luck.  My advice is to give it a try.
>
>Mark
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