i used to use a amd athlon XP 1800+ and that barely cut it with xvmc enabled. it wasnt very stable too. now i am using a p4 3.4ghz.<br><br>mitchell <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Ian Forde</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@duckland.org">ian@duckland.org</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 Sat, 2007-03-03 at 10:06 -0700, stan wrote:
<br>> I've been using an old Intel mobo P3 800 MHz machine with an Hauppauge<br>> PVR-350 for SDTV, and it's been working fine. The hardware<br>> encoding/decoding on the PVR-350 does most of the work, and performance has
<br>> not been an issue.<br>><br>> Now I'd like to move MythTV to HDTV.<br>><br>> Will the old P3 800 MHz machine be fast enough for HDTV if I use an AGP<br>> nVidia display card with XvMC to do the HD decoding?
<br><br>Unfortunately, no. You're going to need a much faster CPU... check the<br>wiki or list archives...<br><br> -I<br>--<br> _______________________________________<br> Ian Forde
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