Look at the link <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_HDTV#CPU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_HDTV#CPU</a><br>The site says Athlon64 3200+ or Pentium
<span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span> 2.8 GHz as the minimum requirment for HD without using XvMC. <br><br>You can buy a Nvidia FX 5200 card for less than $30 on ebay and use XvMC. In that case Pentium <span style="font-weight: bold;">
4</span> 2.8 GHz should be more than enough. <br><br>Bob deinterlacing can be used only with XvMC. You can use Kernel deinterlacing without XvMC. <br><br>Siva<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Steven Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
adeffs.mythtv@gmail.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;">My Dad can get refurbed Dell small form factor PC's through his EPP
<br>for really cheap, the fastest processor they have is listed as a<br>Pentium 4 2.8GHz, I'm wondering if this is fast enough to handle<br>decoding 1080i with Bob deinterlacing?<br><br>thanks!<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>
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