[mythtv-users] MythTV on older system?

[Maarten]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 02:49, Your Name wrote:
> Does anyone here think theres any chance I can get MythTV, or another
> Linux tv
> app running on a 350MHz Pentium II?  I don't need time shifting or anything
> like that, just tv viewing.  Hard drive and RAM are not an issue, I just
> want
> to know if I can use this old system for Tv viewing without major upgrades.

Yes, but _only_ if you use a hardware encoder, ie a PVR250 or Avermedia card.
But because your system sounds underpowered to play the recording back as 
well, your only option is deploying the PVR350 which has a DEcoder as well.
Be advised that that card IS supported but can be a bit more tricky to get 
working to your liking. It has a TV-out, so you cannot watch on your monitor, 
only on your TV (which coincidentally is what most peole want anyway, so...)
Using additional stuff, for instance playing other prerecorded videos, will 
not be possible on your system (or at least, not without framedrops etc.)

By the way, MythTV does not offer "just tv viewing", as such. Viewing TV 
entails simultaneous recording and playing back with MythTV, therefore, if 
you can watch TV you can do it all.  Slow systems sometimes will record or 
playback fine but cannot watch live TV as it combines the two.  With a system 
as slow as yours you may want to keep this warning in mind...  However, from 
what I hear the PVR350 will do all the work instead of the CPU so there 
shouldn't be a problem.
If all you want to do is watching TV, not recording, there are plenty 
alternative solutions, albeit they are CPU-bound which will not work well in 
your case.  

Maarten

> Thanks
> -Brendan
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