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| − | = Hardware requirements =
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| − | == Minimum == Standard Definition (SD) DVD and audio (MP3, OGG, etc) player.
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| − | * The simple answer is a machine that can install and boot [http://www.ubuntu.org Ubuntu] (presently Edgy Eft 6.10).
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| − | == Standard == Standard Definition DVR + Audio/Video player
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| − | From the [http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html MythTV Hardware Requirements] page.
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| − | === CPU ===
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| − | * 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.
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| − | * A developer states that his AMD1800+ system can almost encode two MPEG-4 video streams and watch one program simultaneously.
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| − | * 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.
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| − | * A dual Celeron/450MHz is able to view a 480x480 MPEG-4/3300kbps file created on a different system with 30% CPU usage.
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| − | * A P4 2.4GHz machine can encode two 3300Kbps 480x480 MPEG-4 files and simultaneously serve content to a remote frontend.
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| − | * A video capture card supported by Linux.
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Latest revision as of 03:18, 7 December 2007
