System requirements for mvp

[jksmurf]

For what it's worth I'm running GBPVR on my old PIII 1.2Ghz (512mb ram) with a 20gig primary HD (RAID1) and 80gig 2nd HD for the recordings.

Yes, the GBPVR menus are a bit sluggish both at the PC and the MVP, but it streams just fine to the MVP.

Like Paul, I don't do much else on the PC when recording or playing back.
It is my one and only PC, though, so I do everything else on it (that you can on a computer...)

k.

[wtg]

I used a 1.1 GHz Celeron with two MVPs for quite a while, and used the PC for playback on our primary TV as well. Playback on the PC stuttered every 5 seconds with the MVPs using a skin with the Next Recording panel, but once I disabled that everything worked pretty well. As others said, the menus were a bit sluggish but certainly functional, and the playback was fine.

[stefan]

As others said, the menus were a bit sluggish but certainly functional, and the playback was fine.

I guess what I'm trying to figure out is whether the menus were more sluggish on the MVP than when using the computer by itself?

[sub]

I guess what I'm trying to figure out is whether the menus were more sluggish on the MVP than when using the computer by itself?

Yes, most likely. It needs to all the same things as when you view on you PC plus a few more steps.

[wtg]

The network tweaks help a lot, but using an MVP doesn't require 1 GB of ram. With 512 meg of RAM I could support 2 MVPs without paging, including using the memory munching My Videos plugin. It was cutting it close, but it was enough.

With 768 meg RAM currently, I have no trouble with 3 MVPs.

In both setups I was using the PC for viewing videos as well, and as each MVP loads a copy of gbpvr.exe into memory, I had 3 and now 4 instances of gbpvr.exe in memory.

More memory is always better, but running an MVP doesn't require a gig of RAM.

[stefan]

Yes, most likely. It needs to all the same things as when you view on you PC plus a few more steps.

Except for actually decoding the mpg itself? Which would lessen the load on my cpu by at least 40 percent units...

[sub]

Except for actually decoding the mpg itself?

Yeah, you'll probably be slightly better off when video is playing.

I was thinking more about the speed of the menus etc. I remember them as being particularly painful on my M10000 when I owned it. It'd be even slower on the MVP served from an M10000.

[stefan]

Thank's man. I'll probably stick with the m10000 until I have to switch computers (maybe because GBPVR will get too complex for it eventually... ;-)

Thank's for your input, everyone.

[djtaylor]

No no no no no.

You've got it all wrong!

You *buy* the MVP, WIFE 1.0 or GIRLFRIEND 1.x (depends on which of these you have installed right now) falls in love with the MVP however she just might be disappointed by the performance or she might not but we all know how women get about performance issues.

So, you then assemble the Project Team (you) and you spec out a new PC that will deliver the required acceptable performance. Now the Financial Controller (Either WIFE 1.0 or GIRLFRIEND 1.x) will grant instant budgetary approval to the Project Team and this project will gain both higher budgetary and resource approval over pretty much anything else.

Geez, you really do have a lot to learn...

David.

[stefan]

When I told her about "better image quality" she went: "what? what's wrong with what we have?"... I tried telling her about the 1 inch black border around everything in wide screen mode on our S3 Graphics card, but got a pretty blank look back

I tried talking about the slow menus (which, granted, wouldn't be solved by the MVP), but got the answer "I don't mind"... oh, well...