[mythtv-users] what cpu is required for hdtv playback

[Patrick Szalapski]

On 25 Aug 2005, Patrick Szalapski wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2005, Reza Naima wrote:
> > i'm building a system and want to use it as a frontend to play back
> > (eventually) hdtv content.  I ordered a 533 celeronD 2.6 as a first
pass
> > -- will that be fast enough, or do i need to go pentium4?  
> 
> Probably. I'm using a P4 2.4 and it can just barely playback MPEG2
> 1920x1080i or 1280x720p content.  I'm using a GeForce 4 4200, so I can't
> enable "Inverse Discreet Cosine Transform" hardware decoding--maybe you
> can.  XVMC off worked better for me than XVMC on.  YMMV, try both. 
Anyway,
> see also this thread:
> 
> http://www.xmission.com/~pchdtv/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4801

I do recommend faster CPU for the backend too--because if you do any
High-Def transcoding, it is really slow.

P-Sz