2006-09-20, 08:31 AM
Hello,
I got an old MediaMVP that I'm looking to push back into service with GBPVR.
I've installed and played with just GBPVR using my newly purchased Nova-T PCI card on my main PC and apart from a couple of gripes (getting the EPG to update fully is one) it's working fine direct to screen.
I ideally didn't want to have it in my main machine, so I was looking to put my spare machine to good use - the problem is that I don't know if the spec is up to it. It's a P3 1Ghz, currently with 256Mb ram (will be 512Mb next week) and with a 10Gb system drive and I'm dropping a 120Gb secordary drive in it. This will be used to stream into the MVP making it like a recorder alongside my existing STB, with the aim that if all goes well, to drop a secord DVB-T card in and ditch the STB. Eventually I'd like another MVP off of it, but I understand this would be stretching things a little too far.
For my initial planned usage, will my machine be up to the job??
I got an old MediaMVP that I'm looking to push back into service with GBPVR.
I've installed and played with just GBPVR using my newly purchased Nova-T PCI card on my main PC and apart from a couple of gripes (getting the EPG to update fully is one) it's working fine direct to screen.
I ideally didn't want to have it in my main machine, so I was looking to put my spare machine to good use - the problem is that I don't know if the spec is up to it. It's a P3 1Ghz, currently with 256Mb ram (will be 512Mb next week) and with a 10Gb system drive and I'm dropping a 120Gb secordary drive in it. This will be used to stream into the MVP making it like a recorder alongside my existing STB, with the aim that if all goes well, to drop a secord DVB-T card in and ditch the STB. Eventually I'd like another MVP off of it, but I understand this would be stretching things a little too far.
For my initial planned usage, will my machine be up to the job??
on your MVP: the server needs quite a bit of grunt to convert to mpeg on the fly...
(but time 
)