[TriLUG] mythtv issue

[Jason Tower]

hw is a dell 400sc, 2ghz celeron, 1gb ram (both are overkill, cpu and ram 
usage is quite low), pvr-350 card.

network is a standard 10/100 (soon to be gigabit) lan, and i have a wifi 
bridge in the garage so i can give servers network access without lugging 
them upstairs.

watching live tv on the myth box leaves the cpu about 80% idle, another 
frontend stream eats another 5-10%.  as a mythfrontend, my laptop's cpu 
usage is about 20% which is enough to keep it on the lowest cpuspeed setting 
(600mhz).

all in all i'm extremely impressed with it.

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Jason - 
> 
> I saw this post, and have been interested in MythTV for quite some time.
> Mind sharing some information on your setup? (System specs / network).
> Thanks! 
> 
> I've very linux savvy (although my distro of choice is Gentoo).
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Eric 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jason Tower
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:43 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] mythtv issue
> 
> i installed knoppmyth on my home server and got it working.  can boot
> knoppmyth on another machine and connect to the backend fine.  pretty
> damn cool app (and this is coming from someone with two tivos).
> 
> while i was at it wanted mythfrontend on my main laptop (ubuntu breezy)
> too, but there aren't any mythtv 0.19 packages so i grabbed the tarball.
> 
> everything builds fine but running mythfrontend results in zero network
> traffic even though it says it's connecting to the backend server on a
> different host.  tcpdump at both ends shows no traffic at all.  the
> mysql-client package is installed, and i can connect using the mysql
> command.  could this just be a missing dependency during the build that
> wasn't detected, or some other silly little thing?
> 
> jason