[mythtv-users] Dual tuners, frontend and backend doable on P4 520?

[Jack Trout]

I dont think it would be a problem I have:
AMD 2000+ (1.68 ghz)
256mb ram
GF4mx440 (output to 21in monitor)
2 tuners (ATI TV Wonder/Hauppage WinTV GO) 
1-ATA100 hard drive
front end and backend on the same machine
Everything runs fine processor wise even encoding to Divx at medium
quality screen resolution 400x300 (480x480 seems to make me run out of
hard drive bandwidth and everything gets jumpy when both encoders are
running)
I can either record 2 shows and or watch 1 and record one, video gets
kinda jumpy with both encoding and watching anything via a remote
front end or local front end.

that may not be an issue with the PVR Cards seeing I am sure some
extra hard drive bandwidth is used to encode to divx while recording.
I am thinking about setting up my /video partition on a raid and
seeing if that fixes it so your specs far outstrip mine so I am sure
you will have enough power




On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:13:07 -0800, Troy Roberts <troy at pdaverticals.com> wrote:
> Should be plenty - I have a single system running a backend / frontend -
> P4 2.8Ghz with 3 PVR250 cards in it and I have no problems recording 3
> different streams at the same time while watching something that was
> previously recorded.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Frisch wrote:
> 
> >Would a Pentium 4 520 (2.8GHz, 1MB cache, 800MHz FSB) have enough
> >horsepower to handle dual tuners (PVR-250 and Twinhan VP1020) as well as
> >running the mythbackend and mythfrontend?
> >
> >My proposed system would be a Dell SC420 server with 512MB DDR2 RAM,
> >PCI-E Nvidia 5200-based card (I don't game and am only interested in TV
> >out), and at least one SATA hard drive.
> >
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