[mythtv-users] Advice on Proposed setup UK DVB-T

[Adam Retter]

Okay well the MSI case I want takes AMD and so im thinking that I will
either go for a Sempron (laptop processor) so should be low power - or
an Energy Efficient model of the AMD Athlon X2.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Steve Smith <st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 15/02/2008, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 11:10 +0000, Adam Retter wrote:
> > > So for playback and converting to DivX etc I will need to process the
> > > streams in software, what should I be thinking of in terms of CPU
> > > power for this?
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> > for playback, not much.
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> > for converting, well how long do you want to spend converting?
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> > My guess is that you should buy a dual-core machine, this will allow
> > your machine to safely do a few things at the same time (playing,
> > converting, recording, etc...), and get the fastest thing you want to
> > pay for in order to future-proof your system (HD comes to mind).
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> > Nico
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> Adam,
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> I think the key thing here is ..... * UK * . Here in the UK we don't really
> have HD yet (apart from limited Sky and Virigin services & then you don't
> get the raw digital signal). So unless you're downloading it HD playback
> probably isn't required. SD only is all that's needed.
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> Basically for what you're proposing you can get away with a PIII probably
> 700Mhz plus....
> (I run a 933Mhz and many others do also).
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> Obviously this won't be capable of playing HD and transcoding to XviD/DivX
> will take a few hours...
> X.263 playback....not sure never tried it.
> DivX/XviD playback... easy!
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> If you want to play HD then you need something more modern and chunky
> probably a dual core etc.
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> My take is this...... you could buy something capable of HD right now for X
> quid.
>                              or wait until HD is more commonly available
> upgrade and pay X/2 quid (+acceleration will probably be better).
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> So if I were doing this (and it's my personal opinion) I'd go for a low
> powered box, either a P3 from ebay or one of the more modern lower powered
> CPUs. (BTW if you want the green angle... Of the energy used during the
> lifecycle of a PC roughly 80% is consumed during the manufacturing only 20%
> during use, so reusing that old PC really is green!)
>
> Of course if super fast transcoding is required or you really want to play
> HD right now or play games etc then get yourself some dual core action...
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> Cheers
>
> Steve
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Adam Retter

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