[mythtv-users] MythTV - Video Distribution Solution?

[Brian Wood]

Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> 
> Again, the backend server is just streaming content to the frontends 
> which doesn't take much CPU.  I'd be willing to bet an old 600 mhz 
> Pentium III could handle the CPU load just fine.  However this is only a 
> guess on my part.

Assuming hardware compression or the recording of already encoded 
material you are correct that the main thing the B/E needs is I/O.

Unless you are doing comm flagging or transcoding. Even these jobs don't 
need much CPU if you are not in a hurry for the results.

I'd guess the database would be the hungriest customer for CPU cycles.

beww