On 12/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Ellis</b> <<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Tue, December 12, 2006 4:25 pm, Michael Tiller wrote:<br>> I'm looking at replacing the existing SiS based<br>> motherboard + 2.4 GHz P4 combination in my current MythTV system with the<br>> following:<br>
><br>> ASUS<br>> M2NPV-VM<<a href="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131014">http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131014</a>>Motherboard<br>> AMD Athlon 64 X2<br>
> 3800+<<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103733">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103733</a>>CPU<br>> A 1Gb<br>> PC4200<<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145525">
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145525</a>>Memory<br>> module.<br><br>Excelent HW platform. Very simlary to the level we use in myPVR V2. You<br>will be doing MPEG2 based HDTV so this setup should be fine. If you were
<br>looking at H264 HDTV you might want to bump the CPU up as at the moment<br>the FFMPEG H264 decodere is a little slow.</blockquote><div><br>Bump up by how much? I doubt I would make the jump, but I'm just curious.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> My main concern here is with HD playback. The motherboard seems like a<br>> good
<br>> HTPC motherboard because of the onboard NVidia 6150 (w/DVI connector), 6<br>> channel audio, etc. I would also assume (based on the<br>> wiki<<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC
</a>>)<br>> that the processor should be up to the task as well.<br><br>Yeah it is quite good, but some XvMC issues on HD Sized frames. Glad to<br>see you are going for 1Gb. We ship with 512 which is fine for SD.</blockquote>
<div><br>What kinds of XvMC issues? Also, is XvMC required? I would not think so. Ideally I would like a system that will play HD without XvMC. If I can get XvMC working well enough, then all the better (more CPU for transcoding and commercial flagging while I watch).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We used to use the Asus A8N-VM CSM boards which are similar to the FoxCon..<br>
The nice thing about the M2NPV-VM is it has Component video as well as<br>DVI></blockquote><div><br>That could be an issue. Good point. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Finally, I'm assuming I can drop this in and an already installed Ubuntu<br>> will still boot up without being upset in the switch from an SiS chipset<br>> and<br>> Intel CPU? Or, am I going to need a special AMD64 version of Ubuntu?
<br><br>No need to go 64bit at the moment. We ship myPVR with a 32bit OS at present.</blockquote><div><br>Excellent. This is an important point. Thanks. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steve</blockquote><div><br>--<br>Mike<br> <br></div><br></div>