[oclug] Setting up MythTV

[Jeremy McNicoll]

Jeremy McNicoll wrote:

> Roger Messier wrote:
>
>> To anyone that has a MythTV box, is it OK if MythTV is on a server 
>> box with other stuff running (e.g. Apache, MySql, NFS, etc) if the 
>> hardware is fast enough, or should it be on its own box no matter 
>> what the hardware?
>>
> Depends on the speed of the machine.  I have my backend running on a 
> 700MHz machine with 512MB ram and I would  say that is about the 
> minimum.  But if you were to run it on a speedier machine like a 2G or 
> > then there should be no problem at all.  With my machine (K7) I get 
> about 15% cpu utilization when recording only.  When I am recording 
> and playing back on the same machine then I see it just to about 85%.
>
>> I don't actually have the server box yet (it's a server that's being 
>> decommissioned at work), so I can't give you the exact specs, but 
>> it's a dual proc system (at least P3, maybe Xeon, not sure of the 
>> speed), at least 1 GB of RAM, two SCSI disks (not sure of the size).  
>> Given these (very) approximate specs, do you think that it'll be 
>> enough if I use a tuner card with hardware encoding like the PVR-250?
>
>
> Sounds like over kill to me.  I wouldnt mind working at a place like 
> that giving away hardware..  ;-)
>
>
O yes one more thing, a couple of links to get you started.

http://www.mcnicoll.ca/mythtv/  <-- my presention stuff for OCLUG
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/  yet another good place to start on how to 
set it up