[mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Mar 31 20:06:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 09:13:58 am Michael Papet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Still trying to get a working build on 0-22-fixes on an iBook G3.  FYI, as
>>  a frontend, it works great.  There's enough hardware acceleration to run a
>>  frontend just fine.
>
> Hmmm, I have a couple of those old G3 iBooks in my garage junk pile, but I'm
> surprised they can work as frontends, they are pretty slow otherwise. I also
> have some G4 units, I was thinking about seeing how they do with video
> display.
>
> Are you talking about HD video, or just SD? If the G3 machines can display HD
> well, I may have to re-think my next Revo order, but I suspect they can't do
> that.

My old PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz w/1.5GB RAM) could handle SD stuff just
fine, but wasn't quite enough for HD, last I tried, but that was
probably 2+ years ago...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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