<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarod Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.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;">
On Thursday 22 February 2007 15:46:28 Jarod Wilson wrote:<br>> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:19:52 Jarod Wilson wrote:<br>> > Note to self: remember to borrow that core solo from down the hall in <br>> > the office...
<br>><br>> Woo! I remembered to remember the note to self. I've got a core solo<br>> sitting on my desk that I'm poking at now... (under linux atm, will also<br>> see what I can see under OS X at some point).
<br><br>Okay, so its time to amend my earlier statement. A core solo[*] HD frontend is<br>probably a stretch, but not by a huge amount. Its definitely on the ragged<br>edge just playing back 1080i material with mplayer (cpu usage occasionally
<br>drops to 90%, most of the time is pegged, and this is without a deint<br>filter). 720p playback is of course a bit better, often leaving the cpu more<br>than 10% idle.<br><br>And wow. With mythtv built from svn of today, playback is actually even better
<br>than with mplayer. The cpu is pegged on both 1080i and 720p, but the playback<br>is pretty damned good (still no deint filter though).<br><br>Gonna have to haul this thing home and hook it up to a 1080p display and see
<br>how it holds up...<br><br>[*] Mac Mini w/Intel Core Solo @ 1.5GHz, 512M RAM<br><br>--<br>Jarod Wilson<br><a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Does XvMC work / help any?<br>I've got 2 GB RAM on order, so might that help?<br><br><br><br>