[mythtv-users] Pentium M laptop as frontend for HDTV?

[Scott D. Davilla]

>Scott D. Davilla wrote:
>  >> My 1.7GHz Pentium-M cross-test hardware is actually using a nvidia
>>>  pci-e card, the on-board video is the Intel 910GM or 915GM (can't
>>>  remember offhand). If I get some time, I can try this with the newer
>>>  intel driver and see. I need to update that box to the new Mythbuntu
>>>  release anyway. It would be an interesting experiment as reports are
>>>  not clear if XvMC under Intel video chipsets is a viable solution.
>>>
>>>    
>>
>>  Just an update, I yanked the nvidia card from my 1.7GHz Pentium-M ITX
>>  system. This is 915GM chipset now using the on-board Intel video.
>>  System RAM is 1GB.
>>
>Interesting, is this MPEG2 or something else?
>

My bad, I try to always postfix mepg2 whenever I use 1080i. I'm not 
100 percent positive but 1080i video content tends to always be 
mpeg2. So yes, 1080i mpeg2 decode and display from a HDHomeRun. 720p 
of both h.264 and mpeg2 is also fine. Have not tried 1080p h.264 yet. 
With the skiploopfilter option in MPlayer 1080p h.264 (Apple Movie 
trailers) almost keeps up on the 1GHz Pentium-M in the AppleTV.