What's needed to watch.

Lots of disk space, about 7GB/hr.

Fast CPU and/or video card which can accelerate MPEG-2

Most nVidia cards, with their closed-source driver(sorry).

The magic code is: XvMC

My Athlon 64 3200+ (32 bit kernel).

• No XvMC: 95-100% CPU some drops.

• XvMC: 10-20% CPU, no drops.

Why my server isn't here today:



It doesn't travel well.