[mythtv-users] Re: Mythfrontend performance on PPC Linux / OS X

[Jens Baumeister]

On 8/25/05, Jens Baumeister <jens.baumeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> 550 MHz G4 system
[...]
> I've been wondering whether it's powerful enough to run mythfrontend.
> (For my kitchen or bedrooom.) Last time I heard, the OS X frontend was
> still a resource hog, requiring something like 1 GHz minimum. 

Replying to myself here, just for reference: I'm happy to report that
the above configuration seems to be doing fine running mythfrontend
0.18.1 under OS X 10.4. I'm using the binary build from
http://www.goof.com/~mmead/MythFrontend-0.18.1.dmg.bz2 and I'm
streaming un-transcoded PAL DVB video via 100Mbit Ethernet (Hoping to
switch to 802.11g soon.)

So. at least for that setup, 550 MHz seem to suffice on OS X. The
system is close to its limit here, though, and the Powerbook's fan
does make quite some noise during watching, since the system's running
at maximum load.

Jens