<DIV>I tend to think that you can pick up a progressive scan dvd player for under a $100. The real grunt work for htpc's has to be recorded and even more so, live tv. They are basically the same right. Both are recorded. One to a file, one to a buffer. The hardware acceleration / decoding is extremely important. </DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart<BR><BR><B><I>Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On December 15, 2003 06:13 am, Jelle Kalf wrote:<BR>> Ehm,<BR>><BR>> Stuart, you don't want to try mythtv with an EPIA without hw decoding...<BR>> It'll go stuttering if you try to run an MPEG2 at 720x576 @ 6000 . QT is<BR>> leaning too heavy on the processor to make it all go fluently.<BR>><BR>> the M10000 is strong enough however when you play back with mplayer or<BR>> xine. Those 2 players are very optimized and have no trouble running mpeg2<BR>> at full pal resolution.<BR>><BR>><BR><BR>I agree, my M10kN is capable of fluidly playing a high quality DVD in <BR>software, now, I've build 0.13 with ddmpeg support, so I'll see how it works <BR>with hardware mpeg decoding.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Thomas Fjellstrom<BR>tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net<BR>http://strangesoft.net<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing
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