On 25/01/06, Justin The Cynical <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, for a remote FE, a "fast" Celeron will work fine for SD broadcast.
I'm running a slave BE/FE system using a Celeron 1.3GHz w/256MB RAM (Intel 815 chipset). Video is TV-Out from an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. This is with a PVR-150 and 2xDVB cards. No problems at all with playback or recording (think I've had 3 simultaneous recordings locally and watched another over the network). This is running MythTV 0.18.1 on FC4 (2.6.14). The HDD is a newish 200GB drive after my IBM Deathstars finally clicked off this mortal coil. When video is SD MPEG-2 and using hardware capture/DVB cards, I really can't see why Celerons (or other similar CPUs) get a bad press. (This system also plays XVID/MP4 encoded video fine). I remember watching fullscreen DVD on old PIII-450 systems with no problems! It seems (at least to me) having read this list for quite some time, that the 'only' super CPU intensive tasks are HD playback, then transcoding, commflagging, and some mythmusic visualisations e.g. Goom. For a SD-based machine with little use of the above, I'd say dig out your old bits and see how things go before buying new. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
