[mythtv-users] Mythtv noob questions...

[Roger Heflin]

Stroller wrote:
> If you spell "noob" correctly in the subject line then your post will  
> show up in the search results when someone else looks for "noob  
> questions" on the list archive in the future.
> 
> 
> On 24 Mar 2008, at 18:37, allene222 wrote:
>> ...
>> Specifically, would the 1.2GHz embedded microATX Intel computer be  
>> enough
>> power for the backend?
> 
> Certainly so. I would reckon you could do it with half that - in fact  
> (although I haven't yet built MythTV) I have a 730mhz Pentium III  
> earmarked for my backend. I am sure others have posted in the past  
> that they're using machines of 500mhz and less, and don't recall  
> reading anything that would rule out my 700mhz processor.
> 
> I am expecting to record HD on my 700mhz PC, also (but not play it  
> back) - if no-one replies correcting me then you can be assured that  
> this is plenty (in HD the overhead is playback - a backend merely  
> dumps the data to disk & streams it over the network, far less than  
> the bandwidth of the harddrive or a 100mBit NIC).
> 

I was running a 700 Mhz for recording HD, the only issue I ran into was I 
originally had very little ram on the device (128MB I think, but it may have 
been 256MB) and that was causing issues with the recordings aborting within a 
few seconds or minutes into the recording, putting more memory in it made that 
go away.

                                  Roger