wasting your money and time. My 1800+ with XvMC (hardware decoding on the Nvidia Card) was still around 93% capacity.<br><br>HD requires alot!<br><br>Mitchell<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
stan</b> <<a href="mailto:stanlist@cox.net">stanlist@cox.net</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;">> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 11:47:18 -0600
<br>> From: "Mitch Gore" <<a href="mailto:mitchell.gore@gmail.com">mitchell.gore@gmail.com</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 800 MHz P3 for HDTV<br>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>> Message-ID:<br>> <<a href="mailto:addc01320703030947u17a59518j6316b1783efa8b24@mail.gmail.com">addc01320703030947u17a59518j6316b1783efa8b24@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>><br>> i used to use a amd athlon XP 1800+ and that barely cut it with xvmc<br>> enabled. it wasnt very stable too. now i am using a p4
3.4ghz.<br>><br>> mitchell<br>> ********************************************<br>[stan]<br><br>Thanks for all the replies. I'm replying to this one because it seemed the<br>most disconcerting. It seems to say, "Do all the analysis you want. I
<br>tried it with a slightly faster machine, and it didn't work."<br><br>But, I'm still wondering if you were running other stuff on the machine.<br><br>It seems if the display card is doing all the decoding work, than all the
<br>cpu needs to do is move 8 GB of data per hour to the video card. I know I<br>can copy 8 GB disk to disk in far less than an hour.<br><br>Is there a chance if I<br><br> - Don't record while playing back<br>
- Don't run any servers on it<br> - Don't do any remote file access<br><br>or will I just be wasting money on an nVidia card for a system that just<br>can't work?<br><br>--stan<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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