[vdr] Re: Hardware Question

[Thomas Heiligenmann <thomas@heiligenmann.de>]

Markus Kalb wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> i have some questions about what hardware is needed to run the
> different plugins
> 
> a) vcd
>         it's not running very well with my 300 K6, but maybe the
>         problems are connected to my older cd rom. So i would
>         very much like to hear from you if anyone is running
>         vcd on a 300MHz.
> 

300MHz should be sufficient, since the decoding is done by the DVB card
- I have it even running on an 200MHz machine.

There's probably a problem with the data transfer rate of your CD ROM
drive. Have you checked DMA settings?

Thomas