[Sussex] MythTV

[Richie Jarvis]

David Morris 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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Hi David,

I use a Duron 1300 for my backend - that runs 4 DVB-T cards without 
issue.  Mythbackend uses about 30% CPU whilst watching live TV (record + 
play at the same time),  so I would expect your 500MHz to be capable of 
running it.  If you start using multiple frontends though, you might 
well run out of steam!

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

Richie