Michael O'Keefe wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Do you think I could run MythTV on seriously older hardware (PII-350)
if I'm willing to run it in resolution just adequate enough for a
2-inch diagonal?
You mean the playback ?
The playback typically doesn't take all that much resources.
The hard work is done at compression time, but it's relatively easy
(CPU wise) to uncompress.
Playback? Not exactly. I have to do the recordings first. The
compression can be delayed to a time when the CPU is idle. When I want
to play it back, I can uncompress first if I need to before watching it.
The main thing is that the recording itself has to be able to keep up,
as well as the playback. The compression and decompression is
relatively unimportant. If I have to sacrifice video or sound, I would
sooner sacrifice video. That's why I'm willing to record at a
resolution that would be appropriate for a very small window. I'd
rather not have jumpy video so smaller is OK. I'd really rather not
have jumpy audio.
my old tangerine iBook was the slowest computer I used to watch my
captures on, but being a PPC CPU, there's no straight comparison to a
PII-350
I don't know what is a PPC, but I imagine it is a fair sight better.
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