MediaPortal on a 500Mhz PC? (1 Viewer)

barnett25

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I want to setup a spare PC I have lying around to stream video and audio from my main PC via a USB 802.11b adapter. My computer is a PIII at 500Mhz. I realize that the minimum hardware requirements state that you need a 1.4Ghz CPU, but I was hoping that that is only if you are going to record live tv (which I dont want to do, I already have tivo). So excluding recording tv, can my 500Mhz PC run this software?
 

Callifo

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    Does it meet the rest of the requirements in terms of ram/video card? And is it a P3 for example and not a celeron? Depends on a lot of stuff. Also 11b isnt all that fast and we we had it, it definately wasnt fast enough for streaming divx files let alone dvd content.
     

    barnett25

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    It is a Pentium, not a Celeron. It has 384MB of RAM. It doesn't have a good enough graphics card now, but I need to buy one that has RCA out anyway, so if I can find one cheap enough I could get a DX9 card.
    Mostly I will be streaming mpeg, avi, and wmv files, and also music.
    I just hate to spend $50 on a vid card and find that the software is unusable because of the CPU.
     

    tein

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    No harm to try if it's a spare PC! Maybe you could test the machine with your other graphics card first?

    I used to run Mediaportal 0.2rc2 on a celeron 500Mhz, 512MB ram with a graphics card from 2001 (32MB Radeon VE). The menus was really slow but I could play MP3s and the most divx/xvids (depending on quality of course).

    That machine also acted as a file server with an 802.11b PCI card. That was fast enough for my other computer to play music and divx/xvid. I never tried the other way around.

    I never tested looking/recording TV as I didn't have a TV-card at that point.
     

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