Bad performance on my laptop

[rajohnston]

I am having very poor (choppy) performance with the SageTV client on my laptop. I have a Pentium 750 with 256 meg of ram and 10 gig of free space on a 54 mbps with a wireless g card. I’ve streamed with other things and they work fine and if I watch a an mpg4 movie through sagetv it works fine too but live tv is unbearable. Am I expecting too much from the laptop or what?

[fidget]

Originally posted by rajohnston
I am having very poor (choppy) performance with the SageTV client on my laptop. I have a Pentium 750 with 256 meg of ram and 10 gig of free space on a 54 mbps with a wireless g card. I’ve streamed with other things and they work fine and if I watch a an mpg4 movie through sagetv it works fine too but live tv is unbearable. Am I expecting too much from the laptop or what?

What kind of performance do you get when playing a DVD on the laptop? I would guess that your specs (both CPU and memory) are a little low since you are doing MPEG2 decoding in software and running Java. Unfortunately, I don't have a similar system to compare against.

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Since this thread had gotten rather side tracked and the mods split off that part...

Just to get things back into the stream here in the forum...

I to feel your laptop may be a bit underpowered for speed. However, I would think if it can play a DVD ok with something like PowerDVD that it should be able to be used as a SageTV Client machine as long as you don't have much of anything else running on it (in the background) and have a good network connection (wireless is often rather iffy).

BTW: You might be interested in joining in another discusion that was kind of a side track of things as far as old computers and how they relate to SageTV in this thread:

Options for a REALLY slow computer?