[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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