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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Questions for the list: Is anybody running a Myth setup with
the pcHDTV card and successfully playing back a HD (1920x1080i) stream? What
CPU, ram , MB combo are you using? I have come to the conclusion that my Athlon
XP 2500+ is not quite up the job of decoding the HD stream. It is OK for a SD
stream. Here is my TOP while watching a HD channel:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>top - </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>20:33:34</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> up 2 days, 9
min, 2 users, load average: 4.36, 1.92, 0.74</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tasks: 100 total, 2 running, 98
sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cpu(s): 97.1% us, 2.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0%
id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mem: 514048k total, 510396k
used, 3652k free, 16760k buffers</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Swap: 1959920k
total, 0k used, 1959920k
free, 255240k cached</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My hard drive is using dma, and I have tried compiling Myth
with XvMC support (hdtv patches applied) but this actually makes the
problem worse.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I am considering 2 options:
One is to drop in a Athlon XP3200+ with the 400Mhz FSB, or two, is to go with a
P4 3.0Ghz. This would require a new MB and a complete rebuild of Gentoo and
lots more money. Any advice would be appreciated.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Scott</span></font></p>
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