What hardware I will need

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Hardware requirements

== Minimum == Standard Definition (SD) DVD and audio (MP3, OGG, etc) player.

  • The simple answer is a machine that can install and boot Ubuntu (presently Edgy Eft 6.10).


== Standard == Standard Definition DVR + Audio/Video player From the MythTV Hardware Requirements page.

CPU

  • A PIII/733MHz system can encode one video stream using the MPEG-4 codec using 480x480 capture resolution. This does not allow for live TV watching, but does allow for encoding video and then watching it later.
  • A developer states that his AMD1800+ system can almost encode two MPEG-4 video streams and watch one program simultaneously.
  • A PIII/800MHz system with 512MB RAM can encode one video stream using the RTjpeg codec with 480x480 capture resolution and play it back simultaneously, thereby allowing live TV watching.
  • A dual Celeron/450MHz is able to view a 480x480 MPEG-4/3300kbps file created on a different system with 30% CPU usage.
  • A P4 2.4GHz machine can encode two 3300Kbps 480x480 MPEG-4 files and simultaneously serve content to a remote frontend.
  • A video capture card supported by Linux.
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