I once hooked a machine up to my TV using a scan converter. It was an AMD 400 with 128 MB and a VooDoo 3 card. I didn't use a TV tuner card - I just played movie files with Xine. I used blackbox with Mandrake 8.0. The machine was too slow to even play back movies very well. If you're looking to use PVR software, I'm skeptical if a 200 MHz would have enough horsepower. MythTV.org recommends at least a 500 MHz machine for watching "live" TV with Tivo-type features. http://mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo I'm not even sure if a video card exists that will decode divx video, etc. I would, however, like to become aware of such a device should one exist. Mark Courtney http://www.MarkCourtney.com __ +|oo|+ +|oo|+ || || || || || || _ || _ \\_||_// | [] | | || | / [] \ \______/ > Has anybody on this list installed WinTV or Freevo? Did it work well? What > hardware did you use? Which distribution? > > I'm looking to set it up on a PC I've had laying around here for a while. > It's a Celeron 200MhZ w/ 32MB ram. I'm looking to see how well it works > before getting more ram and possibly a nice video card. One which will > compress/decompress w/o the CPU. I'm thinking of RedHat, just because I'm > familiar with it, but have thought about rolling my own distribution with a > custom kernel for performance. > > -Ryan > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list