<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><div><span class="e" id="q_10f34a6348a04599_1"><div>On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Michael Tiller wrote:</div><br></span></div>That table states "<font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12.7px;">
Without XvMC, HD stutters a lot."</span><font face="Bitstream Vera Sans"> on the 2.93GHz Celeron. Also note that it states no de-interlacing is being used. So yeah, I would say it's hopeless to get HD happening on that processor without XvMC. AGP/PCI should make no difference that I can tell. The table also states that using a Pentium 4
2.4, you can run HD without XvMC and get up to 70% CPU utilization. Switching might be your best option. You'll have to check your processors to see if they use the same socket. Pentium and Celeron came in a variety of different footprints.
</font></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Interestingly, I've gotten XvMC working (in the sense that I get the gray OSD). It isn't any better in terms of playback. In fact, it makes the system more unstable. I've had it lock my whole system multiple times just by "Alt-Tabbing" to another window.
<br><br>This is all very frustrating. I get an HDHomerun and then findout my system can't handle the data I get. :-(<br><br>I'll look into swapping the CPUs. I shudder to think what my wife will say if I tell her I need to buy a new P4 just to play back the HD. I've already acquired the HDHomerun more memory and had to replace a motherboard just to get to this point. :-(
<br></div><br>--<br>Mike<br><br></div>