[mythtv-users] Mythtv noob questions...
Roger Heflin
rogerheflin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 23:02:49 UTC 2008
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
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