[ale] Best processor for MythTV?

[Charles Shapiro]

Well yeah.  I'm mostly interested in this as a technological toy. If it was
up to me, we wouldn't even have a TV in the house.  Plus we don't have
cable.  If my wife doesn't take to it, I might-could sell it or convert it
into some other interesting thing.

But thanks for the insights into processor speed vs video card. Looks like
I'm gonna get stuck with a fairly hefty CPU to make this run right. The
shuttle only has one PCI slot, so I have to run the Radeon on the MB. Alas,
although the Radeon 9100 can do  hardware mpeg2 decoding, ATI won't release
the details to the driver writers. Dang man.

BTW what is "bob deint"? I thought it was a typo, but google has lots o'
references without ever giving a definition.

-- CHS (Video newbie, ok linux d00d)


On 5/19/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us> wrote:
>
> H P Ladds wrote:
> > These thoughts FYI from a person up to his elbows in building his first
> > Myth Machine. My Linux skills are intermediate at best --  other ALErs
> > please feel free to correct me. (No tact necessary).
> >
> > 1. Most wives would take to Tivo more quickly than MythTV.
>
> I can't comment as my wife has never used a Tivo. However, if you want
> a Tivo, buy one. MythTV is *not* a cheaper Tivo. It's actually quite a
> bit more expensive. I think most people use MythTV because it's open,
> powerful, fun, and has no monthly fee.
>
>
> > 2. HD is on the cusp of being truly "doable." It's not "there" yet. I
> > have yet to read of 100% satisfaction with HD and MythTV. (More success
> > with mplayer and xine.) For the present, HDTV w/MythTV is an academic
> > excercise -- no real reason to try-it otherwise.
>
> Have you tried HDTV? If not, then you might want to reserve judgement.
> I currently run HDTV on my combined frontend/backend machine and it works
> pretty well. I have a few minor complaints, but it's quite usable. Many
> people with deeper pockets than I are very happy with HDTV on AMD 3200+
> systems without using XvMC at all.
>
> My frontends will make 100% satisfying HDTV playback without using a
> huge CPU a reality. That's the goal. I probably won't start selling the
> systems until I can make that happen, and I'm very close right now.
>
>
> > I have yet to learn of any benefit to using version .19 over .18. Some
> > say XvMC is broken in .19; this is not an accepted fact.
>
> XvMC is not broken in 0.19. Not even close. It's actually MUCH improved.
> 0.19 has many benefits over 0.18. I suggest you take a look at the release
> notes:
>    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes_-_0.19
>
>
>
> --
> Jesse Guardiani
> Programmer/Sys Admin
> jesse at guardiani.us
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