[mythtv-users] PIII 450-frontend: too slow?

Kichigai Mentat kichigai at comcast.net
Sun Mar 12 21:55:49 UTC 2006


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On Mar 12, 2006, at 14.01, kanetse at gmail.com wrote:

> On 3/12/06, Brian Foddy <bfoddy at visi.com> wrote:
>> I know I'm a few days late and haven't read all the threads yet,
>> but I started with a P3-600, purchased a upgrade kit to
>> bring it to a P3-1400.  With XvMC, it can do most HD playback;
>> SD is no problem at all.
>
> You can play HD-content with an P3-1400?  I'm amazed.  From reading
> this list, I thought one needed at least a 2.4 GHz processor.
That's 2.4 GHz if you're not using an XvMC compatible video card.  
XvMC handles MPEG-2 decoding in hardware (the video card's on-board  
MPEG-2 decoder), so there's very little stress being up on the CPU.

"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User  
Environment."
  --(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
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