[mythtv-users] Does MythTV support HD video and media libraries

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Travis Tabbal wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Igor Chudov <igor at chudov.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would rather get a bigger CPU, I think.
>
> OK Then. The faster the better really, minimum 3Ghz clock, dual core
> preferred. More cores doesn't really help, as most of the work will be
> done by a single core due to the way many h264 files are encoded.

More cores does help when you do are commercial flagging or  
transcoding video. Set your maximum number of jobs to the number of  
cores you have if you're using VDPAU to offload video playback to your  
GPU, otherwise set your max jobs to one less than the number of cores  
you have. This way you maintain a core for video playback and a core  
for each job you're processing. Now you won't have stuttering video  
playback when commflagging/transcoding or whatever else you have your  
box doing.

-Brad