I have a P4 3.4Ghz playing HD scaled to 720p. Works great, without XvMC i get about 70% utilization and with XvMC I get about 25% utilization.<br><br>Using a Nvidia 6200 video card with component out dongle.<br><br>Mitchell
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jake Palmer</b> <<a href="mailto:jakep_82@hotmail.com">jakep_82@hotmail.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;">
>From: "Al Banks" <<a href="mailto:ahbanks@gmail.com">ahbanks@gmail.com</a>><br>><br>>I'm asking because I'm about to buy the hardware for a new system, and<br>>would like to poll some real-world experience.
<br>><br>>Other posts have mentioned "get the fastest CPU" when talking about HD<br>>playback, but what are some reasonable expectations? Would an Opteron<br>>2212 (dual-core, 2Ghz) provide good-quality HD playback?
<br>><br>>On the note of dual-core / mulit-processor systems, is transcoding<br>>multithreaded?<br>><br>>Thanks!<br>>-Al<br><br>My Athlon 64 3200+ does fine playing back 1080i with Bob deinterlacing. I<br>
have ~35% idle, but I should note that I'm scaling to 720p. I don't have<br>any 1080p content so I can't comment on that.<br><br>Jake<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>
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