On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:50 -0800, R wrote: > (On the backend, I plan to have multiple tuner cards, 300GB+ SATA hard > disks, 1.5GB RAM, etc.) > > I need a frontend to mainly view Live TV and recorded shows. > > What would you recommend as the minimum hardware requirements for a frontend?
The mythfrontend itself doesn't appear to be very resource hungry. That is, not counting plugins and using a hardware MPEG decoder such as on the PVR-350 TV-card. I have been playing around with a GCT Allwell N1030 system. This is basically a set top box with a Geode 233 MHz (slot 7) processor and 64 MB of memory. The trump-card is a PVR-350 from which only the tv-out (MPEG 2 decoder) is used. On a standard Fedora Core 4 environment, the MythTV frontend was installed and configured to use the tv-out. The result was a working and stable system. Live TV and recorded shows playback is working fine. There is some minor stuttering while the OSD fades out and browsing the menu's is a little bit slow. But it is a working usable system. While this system does not exactly answer your question (it is a quite minimal system, but I wouldn't recommend it, compiling mythtv took 2 days), it does show that for just viewing television (not HDTV) the tv-out decoding is the main bottleneck. For those interested in the attempts to get MythTV working with the N1030 set top box can find a discussion here: http://www.familiebruggeman.nl/~mythtv/smartbox.html Best regards, Wouter Bruggeman
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