[mythtv-users] Really Bad performance

Ryan A. Carris racarris at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 13:49:39 UTC 2005


On 6/10/05, Cyber Source <peter at cybersource.us> wrote:
> I took all the same hardware and just changed the mb and the cpu, from
> asus mb with 850mhz to gigabyte with 2400+ xp cpu, same everything else
> and the problem went away, and the new system had more ram, 512 vs 384.
> So I guess I didn't have enough cpu.

Um yeah... With a dumb capture card like yours, you need atleast 1gz
for low quality.  With the default quality settings, it is probably
more like 1.6 - 1.8gz.

If you replaced your capture card with a PVR150/250/350/500, your
850mzh machine will probably work fine.


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