[vdr] Re: Minimum Hardware

["Koch, Steffen" <steffen.koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

> Only one DVB Card and one 80GB HDD will be used. A friend of 
> mine will be absent for 4 weeks and want to record some stuff 
> - nothing more.
> 
> Is it possible to build up such a vdr with a Pentium 1 
> 100MHz, 64MB Ram, onboard S3 Graphics (IBM PC 730)?
I think this should be possible

A recording takes about 500 KB/sec data to HDD.
The rest is done in hardware (DVB-Card).
eventually some more ram.

> I don't now if it has a DMA Controller for the HDD. If the 
> CPU is too slow, we probably could get something around 
> 150-180MHZ Pentium 1 (all non-MMX).