RE: MythTV and capture drivers for FC/RHL, rpms, HOWTOs and lists

["Ow Mun Heng" <ow mun heng wdc com>]

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> From: fedora-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:01 AM
> To: duncanbrown linuxadvocate net; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: MythTV and capture drivers for FC/RHL, rpms, HOWTOs and
> lists
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:46:00PM -0400, duncan brown wrote:
> > about myth tv, i'm looking to get my 5 year old a new 
> computer (her's is
> > an aging pII 300 (first gen, made in 97 i think) and it has 
> an EXCELLENT
> > tv out.  now, i've read that mythtv and freevo need something like a
> > 1.8ghz box to work correctly, is that still true?
> 
> Quoting from the VDR project, a PVR project similar to MythTV/freevo
> centered around DVB capture cards, a 200MHz PC is enough! For
> MythTV/freevo which are a bit more feature rich I would estimate a
> higher lower bound. I also depends on whether you want to have
> (optional) near to real time MPEG4 transcoding and so on.

Huh? IIRC the guide I read that uses the ATrpms packages
did use a haugepage capture card and it was a new high-end machine
like an Athlon 2000+ or something.