[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Wed Feb 13 14:56:38 UTC 2008
ryan patterson wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 5:14 AM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com
> <mailto:ylee at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
> For the past several years the benchmark for North American high
> definition (1080i MPEG-2 content recorded via FireWire or OTA at
> 7.5-8GB/hour)-capable MythTV frontend has been a Pentium 4 2.8-3.0GHz
> with an Nvidia 5200. Anything slower is asking for trouble.[1]
> Anything that meets this level of performance or better is in fine
> shape.
>
>
> Am I missing something? I've been running 1080p HP playback with a
> 1.8Ghz CPU for over a year. I don't have to use use XvMC and I get
> perfectly smooth playback. Also I can use XvMC on my nvidia GPU and I
> don't have a black and white OSD during playback either.
>
What's your source for 1080p material? Blu-Ray or HDDVD? Some other source?
beww
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