Beat this, 1.7Ghz CPU & 256Mb ram!

ACTCMS · 2008-04-17, 03:13 PM

zehd Wrote:Very cool. Anyone gotta plugin to run the TV Guide on my calculator?

There you go...

observer_11 · 2008-04-17, 06:31 PM

OK that's just too rediculous to even imagine people using a device that small and tiny display for watching recordings and... oh, ...wait, gotta run - my batch video transcoding for my iPod nano just finished... hey! wait a second...:o

rscheller · 2008-04-17, 10:52 PM

Cell phone watching a GBPVR recording streamed from my hard drive. No joke.

jch · 2008-04-26, 08:40 PM

theredfleece Wrote:Athlon XP 1.7Ghz processor
256Mb ram
320Gb hard drive
Windows XP SP2

Is anyone running the same scenario on an even lesser machine than my own?

Yup, see footer below.

The only downside is my machine's inability to stream divx recordings to my MVP -- it can't keep up. :-(

Other than that, it's a great way to put old hardware to use.

.../j

theredfleece · 2008-04-30, 03:03 PM

Thanks folks...I was curious to see how low a spec people were using.

Chris

stu8080 · 2008-04-30, 08:48 PM

rscheller - do you need a cell phone with native streaming support or can you do it with any java phone?

(Not something id ever use - but now i just have to see if it possible!!)

Graham · 2008-05-01, 12:13 AM

ACTCMS Wrote:This was my first system - processor was pretty nippy (for those days) - but it only had 32K of core memory (ram)

As you can see from all the buttons and knobs, tuning could be a bit of pain...

I can still remember how impressed we were when we got one of those to replace our 360. I can't remember how much memory it had but you could see every bit -- literally -- each bit was about 5mm.

I was following in my father's footsteps, be worked with tabulators and LEO and all that.

ACTCMS · 2008-05-01, 12:33 AM

Graham Wrote:I can still remember how impressed we were when we got one of those to replace our 360. I can't remember how much memory it had but you could see every bit -- literally -- each bit was about 5mm.

I was following in my father's footsteps, be worked with tabulators and LEO and all that.

I started off on a 1401...

However, IMHO this thread has been hijacked enough... 'Memories of times gone by' might be an interesting topic for the 'General Discussion' forum though Big Grin

drbenjamin · 2008-05-05, 07:52 PM

Sorry I'm late to the thread, but check my .sig. I suppose my machine has a bit more Ram than yours, but I frequently find it playing 2 separate shows on our 2 MVPs, recording a third, and running the comskip on an earlier recording! Plus it stays up for months at a time. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

berriferous · 2008-05-21, 03:00 AM

drbenjamin Wrote:Sorry I'm late to the thread, but check my .sig. I suppose my machine has a bit more Ram than yours, but I frequently find it playing 2 separate shows on our 2 MVPs, recording a third, and running the comskip on an earlier recording! Plus it stays up for months at a time. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

650MHz Athlon slot A on a ASUS MB... 256M memory... 120 G Hard drive... PVR-250... satellite network connection. Rarely crashes without a power failure. I do occassionally cause crashes when interacting through the MVP, but for the most part is solid. I usually just power off the MVP to reboot it, and it is back up. I've actually ran out of memory trying to run the Yahoo TV Guide scrapper which forced me to use the zap2it plugin which works great. I do have problems skipping through programs on playback. Occasionally, I can not skip past the 1/2 point in the program. It ignores repeated attempts to skip until starting a new recording. I'm not sure if it is a bug or a symptom of my low speed system.