[mythtv-users] Would this hardware be OK for high definition?

Bill Williamson bill at bbqninja.com
Wed Nov 26 04:05:10 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Robert Moss <rob at mossko.com> wrote:

> I'd say mostly the Graphics card
>
> You really need an nvidia 6x00 or above PCI/PCIe card to do HDTV as it
> does all the processing. Otherwise the CPU has to do all the work and
> you'll lose frames.
>
> I have a system with a Pentium-D E5200, nvidia 7x00 pci-e, and a
> Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card and it plays HDTV just fine, using 30% of the
> CPU.
>
>

Unless you're using XvMC (which has its own issues) this is not correct, and
if you're going to do offloading you're better off waiting for the new VDAPU
from nvidia to solidify.
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