<div>What's the speed of you CPU?</div>
<div>If you start mythfrontend from a console, do you get "NVP: Prebuffering pause" ?</div>
<div>If you don't, can you tell us which settings you are using?</div>
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<div>Thanks. Steve<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ray Lischner</b> <<a href="mailto:linux@tempest-sw.com">linux@tempest-sw.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:09 am, James Dastrup wrote:<br><br>> My whole point of this topic is if you want to use older, slower
<br>> hardware for HD content, XvMC is not a perfect solution. Sometimes the<br>> problems are minor annoyances, other times the problems are a show<br>> stopper. I would suggest to anyone to just buy a faster CPU instead.
<br><br>"Just buy a faster CPU instead" is not a perfect solution, either. It's<br>expensive, much more expensive than simply buying a new video card.<br><br>To upgrade my wife's computer to play HD, she would need a new
<br>mainboard, CPU, and RAM. Instead, I got her a decent FX5200 card for<br>under $50. With 0.19 and the Chromakey hack, she has color OSD, clean<br>HD playback, and I have not heard any complaints.<br>--<br>Ray Lischner<br>
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