Minimum Hardware necessary

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What type of machine is your VLC (Linux version) running on and working?

Pentium I
0
No votes
Pentium II
1
9%
Pentium III
3
27%
Pentium IV
2
18%
Other
5
45%
 
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Minimum Hardware necessary

Postby ArneVR » 27 Nov 2003 19:57

What Intel machines is the VLC running on (working)?

I am looking for minimum requirements, so the lower the machine you tried and got VLC running properly, the better.
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Postby Sigmund » 27 Nov 2003 20:11

Isn't this an imensly stupid poll? vlc runs on lots of other hardware than intels, and the minimum hardware requirements depends to a very large degree on what you want to use it for

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Hmm, let me specify

Postby ArneVR » 27 Nov 2003 21:59

Yes, I'm shure it runs on quite some different systems, but I'm interested in Intel systems which are the ones I use.

Secondly, let's define the use:

Streaming from an external video and audio source in MPEG2, full screen, 4 MBits/sec.

OS: Linux.
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Postby Goon » 01 Dec 2003 19:02

Isn't this an imensly stupid poll? vlc runs on lots of other hardware than intels, and the minimum hardware requirements depends to a very large degree on what you want to use it for
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Postby Chazmati » 02 Dec 2003 04:27

I think this is a great question.

I have an old 200 MHz i386 machine with a RIVA TNT card w/ TV out. Could I expect to do anything decent with VLC? If I could get VHS quality streaming I'd be happy. I have higher-powered boxes that could send the stream on my 100 Mb Ethernet LAN.

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Postby The DJ » 02 Dec 2003 13:52

I'm not sure what you are expecting, but the most CPU intensive part (decoding) is always done on the client side.
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What I am expecting

Postby ArneVR » 02 Dec 2003 15:05

I would love to have several cheap harddiskrecorders (not necessarily in on machine).

So what I would like to build is:
- several PI-166 machines with an mpeg encoding card in and a small linux version and an ethernet card.
- one or more high level machines with fast HD (scsi) that can record several streams from some of these "cheap" streaming machines located in a central location.
- Meanwhile be able to show these streams om several locations in a congreshall (audio and video) va multicast..

I'm quite convinced that we could do all that with VLS and VLC, but I'm not shure about the hardware minimum specs.

I did find for VLS PI-166-32MB as a minimum ... I did not yet try to do any calculation regarding the network bandwidth ...
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Postby The DJ » 02 Dec 2003 19:28

VLC does not support hardware encoders or decoders, so a P1 will never do
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Postby BigBen » 02 Dec 2003 22:15

as long have your card is able to output a vaild MPEG stream on a device, we should be able to stream it... This has been tried with Haupaugge PVR 250 cards and Kfirs under linux. In fact, we have a pvr input on VLC, that can has the ability to set this cards correctly without using any external program...

This has never been tried, but a P166 could be enough to stream (we have been using up to 3 PVRs in a single PII 400.

Could ou please report any success (if any) with any other kind of card ?
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Hauppauge PVR usb

Postby Daniel » 08 Dec 2003 21:16

Does your PVR function work with all Hauppauge cards? I think they all use the same type of MPEG2 stream, and if you don't supply a special driver it should work?

Any plans for PVR support in windows?? I'd think that most TV cards for PC's will soon be based on Mpeg2 encoding IC's.


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