[mythtv-users] Low power AMD processors

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 13:34:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:31 AM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Paul Gallaway<pgallaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, David Schlenk<mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:
>>> Anyway, has anyone tried one of these with MythTV? Specifically
>>> wondering how well they can play back 720p/1080i MPEG2 and whatever
>>> format the HDPVR uses. I'm interested in playback performance without
>>> hardware acceleration ala XvMC or VDPAU, not that I won't use one or
>>> the other, but because I'd like to be able to not use it if need be.
>>
>> I am in the process of assembling a new desktop system using an Athlon
>> ii X2 240. Video will be an Nvidia 8400GS. The primary use is not
>> MythTV (it's not even tertiary but that might change). I always
>> install the frontend just for fun. If I don't get the system to a
>> point where I can test it tonight it might be a week or so before I
>> get another chance.
>>
>> Are test clips for 1080i/720p mpg captures and/or HD-PVR captures
>> posted somewhere that I could test with (both not currently in my
>> setup)?
>> --
> There are samples on the wiki
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/HDPVR
>

I spoke too soon. Those are 720p. It may be hard to find but there
were were links in several of the HDPVR threads.

John


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