System Requirments?

[steve1999_CA]

Currently I'm using the family PC with a WinTV-PVR-150 and a MediaMVP. I have a spare computer that I'm wondering if it will work well enough. Here's the specs.

Pentium II 450
New Large Hard Drive
1gb of SDRAM

The only thing I'm worried about is the processor. Will I be okay or is that going to kill me?

[sub]

It'll probably be too slow. It'll work, but the GB-PVR menus will be quite sluggish.

[Guest]

Not to hijack this topic, but I have been trying to register for three days not w/o sucess.
It appears to let me register, but when I try to log in it says no such user found. I emailed the operator of this site and he claims to have registered me himself, but when I go to log in, same message. I have tried from two different computers and two different IP's.

Any ideas???

We now return you to the regularly scheduled topic.

[Guest]

For the record I ran the trial of Sagetv with a VIA C3 800Mhz 512SDRAM and a seagate 7200 8meg cahce seagate hard drive. I also used a ATI Radeon 7000 which gives hardware assistance with mpeg decoading and it ran fine.

I was not able to do anyother tasks with it at the same time however.

I have know updated to a 1.2Mhz VIA C3 it runs GBPVR with no problems at all and I have Overnet/bittorrent running in the background 24/7 and it works flawlessly.

I have not tried the comercial skip feature however.

I woulsay get a graphics card that gives MPEG decoading assistance and give it ago. If it's no good I am sure you could pick up a 800Mhz P3 for 10 quid of ebay. And that I am sure would be fine

[Guest]

I am using gbpvr on a 433 Celeron with 384MB RAM, PVR350, ATI Radeon 9200. I had problems using TV-out on the PVR350 card (my whole computer would freeze occasionally ... even with the latest drivers from Hauppauge). I am using my video card's TV-out.

The menus are a bit sluggish, but other than that it works great.

[Guest]

Is it no longer possible to register on these forums?

I appear to register OK, but when I go to log in, it says that the username is not found!

[sub]

There is some problem with the forum software at the moment. The Ikonboard people are looking at the problem, but it could take a few days.

[glassvial]

Quote[/b] (Guest @ Dec. 03 2004,07:22)]I am using gbpvr on a 433 Celeron with 384MB RAM, PVR350, ATI Radeon 9200. I had problems using TV-out on the PVR350 card (my whole computer would freeze occasionally ... even with the latest drivers from Hauppauge). I am using my video card's TV-out.

The menus are a bit sluggish, but other than that it works great.

Have you tried the latest (somewhat recent) drivers from Hauppauge and the new version of GBPVR? This combination seems to finally have knocked out my 350 TV out problems, and for others as well.

And for the OP, I would agree with what Bathman says, you can try it so long as there's nothing else running. Not to mention, what have you got to lose by trying it? Worst it can do is not work, right?

[zfinxen]

Slow menu!

I have concluded that not many poeple have low spec system but I still do (for some reason, money, heat, noise).

Anyway, I wrote in my post, slow menu shifting , that menu shifting was slow.

However I have noticed that certain menu´s are slower than others. Since the .238 release the manual rec is really slow for me and since before the films and music submenu is noticable slower than the main menu. My wondering is if there is an additional logging or any other specific task taking place in these menus and if sub can conclude anything from this info (I guess you don´t see these things running GBPVR on a faster computer).

Another thing I noticed is that all menu´s are fast if you don´t use xcard or pvr out, e.g. only software decoding. Another clue maybe?

I hope noone, especially sub, don´t see this as baging GBPVR because it´s a really great product. It´s just that I want to use my pIII 933 for thermal and noise reasons and it seems that it could be done.

//Zfinxen

PS love the new panels and watching pending recordings, now it´s getting real. The WAF is all time high.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]Another thing I noticed is that all menu´s are fast if you don´t use xcard or pvr out, e.g. only software decoding. Another clue maybe?

Unfortunately with the XCard enabled there are probably two things that make your PC not fast enough:
- For every screen generated, GB-PVR needs to convert every pixel from RGB -> Indexed YUV. This can take a while.
- If you've set the XCard margins to anything other than "0", then it'll need to resize every screen one more time. You can obviously remove this if you set the margins back to "0", but then things will probably be cut off.

Unfortunately the more places I add semi transparent images and other flashy features, the slower it's going to seem on slow hardware. Sorry I hate to say it, but GB-PVR is being designed for typical modern (fast) hardware. If I'd been targetting slow machines, I wouldn't have written GB-PVR in c#/.net.