From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-ppc-user+bounces-599-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1M9Kdc-0005fT-DJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:01:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD8DCE06D9; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D796E06D9 for <gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22654 invoked by uid 0); 27 May 2009 15:01:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.bway.net) (216.220.96.11) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 27 May 2009 15:01:15 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:01:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Ajai Khattri <ajai@bway.net> To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] What new profile for an old Mac Mini as a MythTV backend server? In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0905200839u4c19362cq723c2dea57ee8f1e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090527105920.M32442@shell.bway.net> References: <5bdc1c8b0905200839u4c19362cq723c2dea57ee8f1e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-ppc-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-ppc-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: d3a882ac-7e4d-44a8-82e4-4f504fad2ab3 X-Archives-Hash: 06e436175eb7427cbcc836d8ad96954e On Wed, 20 May 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > I have an older ppc-based Mac Mini that I haven't updated in a > while but would like to try using as a MythTV backend server for > digital recording only. Actually, do you think it has enough CPU power to do video recording and transcoding? I have my doubts. I have the same Mac Mini. It would however, make a great remote client to stream video from a MythTV backend server. -- A