[mythtv-users] iMac as possible Frontend?

[Sarah Hayes]

Dustin Herrman wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> I am wanting to put a Myth Frontend in my kid's playroom.  We don't have 
> an extra TV, so I was thinking of getting an old iMac on eBay.  I have 
> read the couple of articles on the wiki about this, but was wondering if 
> anyone is actually doing this and how is it working?  Would you 
> recommend a G4? G5? Intel?
>
> Any advice is welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
> dusty
>
> Current Setup:
> Single Frontend/Backend:
> Fedora 8
> Mythtv 0.21 (Weekly Build)
> 2 - AMD Opteron 242
> 2 GB RAM
> 500 GB storage
> Capture Cards: WinTV 150 & WinTV 500
>
>   

I used to have a G5-800 imac that had MythFrontend running on it.  
Didn't test livetv though as at the time... no tunners (testing it as a 
media manager system).  But it could play back XviD and DVD's quite 
happily so I'd assume have no issue with an mpeg2 stream.

I wouldn't want to feed it HD though.