[mythtv-users] hulu / youtube cpu requirements
Chris Ribe
chrisribe at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 18:39:26 UTC 2009
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Andy Colson <andy at squeakycode.net> wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 10/21/2009 01:08 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
>>
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>> My Athlon X2 6000+ (dual-core 3GHz) x86_64 system can not do full-screen
>>>> playback of Hulu content. Funny enough, it handles CBS's Flash-based
>>>> playback in full-screen without issue. So, Hulu's player is either less
>>>> efficient or is doing a lot more (perhaps the bitrate/video size is greater
>>>> on Hulu).
>>>>
>>>> > rather
>>> > than supporting only nvidia cards run on systems with the nvidia
>>> > proprietary drivers.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have Athlon Dual-core 5050e (2.? GHz), with GeForce 7050 PV on the
>>> motherboard. I ran Hulu full screen and it looked good and smooth. Guess I
>>> lucked out using nvidia. I dont recall looking at the cpu usage though. So
>>> I can report it seems to work well with nvidia.
>>>
>>
>> I should mention, too, that my full-screen is 1920x1080 (which is
>> important because of the lack of Xv). For me, there's tearing and
>> occasional glitches.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> Oh yeah, that's different too. I'm running 1360x768
>
>
Thanks for the data points, everybody. It looks I should probably just
stick with something low power and wait for Adobe to provide a better flash
implementation.
--
Chris Ribe
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