[Sussex] MythTV

[James Smith]

Hi Dave,

I've just got one Shuttle box doing both jobs, but a mate of mine has
a very low spec machine (an old Dell GX150 salvaged from the bin, a P3
450 if I remember rightly) as the backend with a separate frontend.
See http://mezzanines.blogspot.com/ for more details.

Actually, I ran my entire Myth setup on one of those machines while my
Shuttle was being repaired, and even for AVI video playback it was
perfectly sufficient...

Caveat: this depends on your capture card - both he and I use a PVR350
which records happily without needing any CPU power for encoding, so
the CPU is just shovelling things on and off the disk.

cheers,
James

On 03/02/07, David Morris <slug at greenacre.no-ip.com> wrote:
> I'm considering breaking my one box machine into 2 (frontend, backend)
> and was curious as to what spec machine you'd recommend for the back.
> The way I read it the backend just takes whats comes in on the cards and
> dumps it onto the hard disk in mpeg2.  Then would just need to server
> this file up to be played.  This indicates to me that it only needs to
> be faster enough to server the files up.
>
> Since I'll only be serving one client to begin with, would I get away
> with a using a 500Mhz machine? a dual cpu 450Mhz machine or should I
> just spend the £50 on a AMD 2800+ board/MB?
>
> Dave
>
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