[mythtv-users] What would be the best route to go?

[MegaDeTH]

> I'm running a 1700 with no problems, though I'm told it currently isn't 
> quite enough oomph for software HDTV decoding.


For real?  I'm running 700mhz celron xbox's as frontends, decoding 
702x480 mpeg2 or mpeg4 is no problem, how much harder is HDTV decoding? 
  I didnt think it was that much worse than 702x480 mpeg2!

I also transcode to 480x480 mpeg4, without any trouble durring playback, 
cpu usage on the xbox is pretty low, detailed below

  CPU states:  43.8% user,   1.6% system,   0.0% nice,  54.7% idle
  Mem:     58296K total,    56520K used,     1776K free,      928K buffers
  Swap:   262136K total,    13136K used,   249000K free,    26092K cached
    PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
    643 root      15   0 34696  31M 22720 R    22.3 54.7   5:31 mythfrontend
    581 root       8 -11 52552  26M 17520 S <  10.8 45.9   2:32 XFree86
    640 root      13   0 34696  31M 22720 R    10.8 54.7   3:10 mythfrontend