[Gllug] mini-itx & usb wifi & mythtv & DVB-T stuff

[Sean Burlington]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:09:31AM +0000, Huw Lynes wrote:
> 
>>>motherboard (fanned, something 1.2 Ghz)
> 
> 
> You probably do want a faster CPU than that.
> 

I had mythtv running on a 500MHz PIII it more or less worked for 
recording or watching - not both at the same time.

now I have a 2.4Ghz celeron - recording and watching at the same time 
brings the total  CPU load to about 30%

I would have thought that a 1.2 Ghz processor would work OK as long as 
you only want one TV card.

> And a bloody big hard disk! :-)
> 

I bought a new 200Gb disc about 2 weeks ago and I've filled 83% of it !

One thing I hadn't realised it that the dvb stream is MPEG2 so mythtv 
stores it in this format - you can set it to transcode to a more 
compressed format but I haven't had much success with this for freeview 
programs yet.

-- 

Sean

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