Hardware Requirements for building a Linux PVR

From: Analabha Roy (daneelNOSPAM_at_physics.utexas.edu)
Date: 06/28/05

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    Hi,

      I'm thinking about building a dedicated Linux PVR using Knoppixmyth. I've
    been tryting to see what the minimum system requirements would be, but
    different people seem to post different (sometimes conflicting)
    requirements. The system I have is an old Compaq Presario 5441 with an SIS
    5595 Motherboard (CPU socket 7). It has an old 450 MHz AMD K6-2 with 128
    Meg RAM. The motherboard has 3 DIMM slots; 2 of them have 64 megs each, so
    one is free for up to 128 Megs more (don't wanna take anything out).
    Thinking of getting a Hauppauge for a TV Card (the Hauppauge in my regular
    desktop works fine with the bttv driver module & tvtime on Fedora 3).
    According to some folks who've built PVR's and posted instructions on-line,
    this would be impossibly slow (they say that min reqs are 1 GHz + 384 Megs
    RAM), but check this out:

    http://www.linuxprofessionalsolutions.com/pavlicek/tv.html

     Where he managed to do it with even older hardware.

    Can anybody offer some advice or anecdotal evidence as to what kind of
    hardware to best use for PVR

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