-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Smith wrote:

I know that I could get some answers from the MythTV website, but I'm looking for some opinions, since others have been talking about the Tivo/MythTV stuff...

I've got a Matrox Mystique and Rainbow Runner card (it's a little "old, I think) that I have been thinking about using to make a MythTV-ish system. (The Rainbow Runner is an add-on TV tuner card for the Mystique.)

Given that I'm not expecting spectacular results with something like that (I mostly want to play with it), what sort of base system should I use it in? (CPU speed, Drive capacity, RAM?)

Any suggestions are welcome.

HI Bill, I found with my card that a 1 hr program takes 2.4 GB of disk space. I suspect I could reduce the resolution so that an hour takes up half as much disk space. Do the math to figure out how much disk space you'd want. I had 18GB for a while but I found that it filled up too fast, especially when you tell MythTV to record every episode of "The Three STooges" and then you hit the marathon. :-) I think MythTV recommends a 1.5-2.0Ghz machine, but I don't think you need that much for just recording and watching programs. Then again, if you plan to use it for transcoding and such, get as fast a machine as you can afford. My MythTV box has 256 MB of memory and it seems pretty happy. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC/g7LHl0iXDssISsRAnpXAJ9ptgw+VjjwLUfsF8wWcEn4YLlEHQCeJ8wS nm9l/SozGKv80PZsg+2HUjY= =bBf7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----