[mythtv-users] Processor Minimum Specs

[Raphael]

John Williams wrote:
> 
>     i'm still working on this myself :)  but i think i can lend a hand.
>     the 'recommended minimum' processor for HD is currently an Intel
>     Core2Duo @ 2.5GHz.  i say 'recommended minimum', but i don't think
>     that that's actually stated anywhere.  that's just what i've gleaned
> 
> 
> I'd also like to hear about the AMD procs. I have been an AMD guy for a 
> while and while I'm not totally loyal I have had good results and am 
> pretty price sensitive at this point. I would expect to be using 2 - 3 
> Hard drives. all IDE. I have a 500 GB on my desk I never opened from a 
> while back. and will use it and my main drive on my current machine for 
> recordings in LVM.
> 
> 

My experience has been that it depends somewhat on the resolution you'll 
be viewing at.

For my main TV which has 1280x768 resolution, I have a socket 939 X2 
3800+ which doesn't even remotely break a sweat while watching 720p. It 
seems to have no problem (maybe 50% on one core) for 1080i with simple 
deinterlacing like linear blend or onefield. The max clock is 2 GHz and 
typically it will sit at 1 GHz when watching 720p stuff. When watching 
1080i it will occasionally up the clock to 1.8 GHz. I don't use XVMC. I 
also don't use the more processor intensive deint.
It takes much much more processing power to watch flash movies 
(Hulu/youtube) on my machine than it does to watch mpeg2 HD.

The e6750 I have in my main desktop is overkill for HD mpeg2, maybe not 
for h.264 which it handles without any issues at all.

HTH
raphy