[mythtv-users] hd-pvr playback plans - sanity check

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 08:01:44 James Orr wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Mike Schiller
> <mdschiller.mythtv at gmail.com
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I have an older frontend box that I would like to upgrade so that it
> > could playback recordings from my HD-PVR. The processor is an Athlon
> > 64 2800+ running at 1.8 GHz, and the motherboard has a PCIE x16 (it's
> > not a PCIE 2 motherboard).
> >
> > From what I've read in a few threads, including this one
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/407875 , I think I
> > should be able to get good HD playback of the recordings if I upgrade
> > my video card to:
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187034
> >
> > But, as my processor is pretty old, and rather underpowered, I'm
> > looking for feedback from the community to see if anyone has had
> > success with similar hardware.
>
> I have an AMD Sempron 3000+ (also 1.8 GHz) on my frontend which I run with
> VDPAU and this card ...
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139018
>
> It works flawlessly on recordings from my HDHR, I don't have an HD-PVR so I
> can't speak for that but I imagine it wouldn't be much different.

It might be. HDHR recordings are MPEG2, and the HD-PVR records in h264, which 
takes a lot more oomph to decode, but with VDPAU it's mostly happening in the 
GPU anyway.

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Brian Wood
beww at beww.org