[mythtv-users] Some CPU questions...

[Joakim Kolsjö]

According to http://dominia.org/djao/dvdsub.ver3-1.html i should be
able to play dvds on this box... "A Pentium III 500 MHz is probably
the minimum CPU required to play back DVD video comfortably under
Linux.".

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:15:08 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss
<papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, David Erickson wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well i can tell you this.  DVD Playing would suck on that system.
> > Playback wouldn't be too great on it either for your mpeg2 streams coming
> > out of your pvr-250. If you got a pvr-350 hten you could use a slower
> > system.  I have an AMD XP1700 and it's horrible on playback when i do not
> > use the hardware decoder on the pvr-350.
> >
> > Dave
> >
>         It sounds like you've got other issues then.  No DMA on the dvd
> drive or something.  Remember that a PII-350 was all that was necessary to
> play DVD's on a PC once upon a time....
> 
> 
> 
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> * Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
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