[mythtv-users] Dell Studio Hybrid - success

greg at nodecam.com greg at nodecam.com
Fri Nov 14 19:06:09 UTC 2008


> Jason wrote:
>
>> 2)  Have you tested, or can you test, how well it plays back h.264
>> files?
>> (There's a couple samples on the MythTV wiki page for HD-PVR:
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/HD-PVR).  I'm curious if the 2.0GHz
>> Core 2 is up to the task or not.

Basically no, it wouldn't do it properly.  All the files played with the
Internal player, but they stuttered every couple of seconds.  Top reported
that one core was pinned, and the other one was basically idle
(Mythfrontend was taking ~100-110%)  The higher bit rate files stuttered
more often.

mplayer played them back but had severe audio sync problems.

I have no doubt that some day this machine will be able to play those
files back, but today is not that day.

Greg



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