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

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:45:48PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
> > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:01 AM
> > To: duncanbrown at 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.

:)

You can use as much power as you like, some processes like transcoding
to MPEG4 will benefit from this. Nevertheless VDR often quotes the
200MHz hardware requirement (which I believe). I can't even test this
requirement w/o breaking into a computer museum ;)

Persoanlly I have been using MythTV on a Duron/700 w/o having any
performance problems (but I never transcode or archive anything, it's
capture, view, delete ;)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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