<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 22, 2007 5:44 PM, Andreas <<a href="mailto:linuxdreas@launchnet.com">linuxdreas@launchnet.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I saw an interesting ad for the Athlon X2 Dualcore BE2300 & ECS mainboard at<br>Fry's and was wondering if anyone knows if using such a system would be<br>fast enough for playback of QAM and/or ATSC recordings?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Gruß<br>Andreas<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br>If I was going to be pedantic, I would give an unqualified "yes." QAM and ATSC are simply modulation schemes, and your tuner bears the sole responsibility of dealing with them. By the time your video gets to Myth for playback it has been demodulated into a bitstream. The resolution and codec will determine the amount of processor needed at that point.
<br><br>That said, you did mention HDTV in the subject line, so I will give a qualified "yes" as my final answer. With the right video card and driver you will be able to playback 1080i mpeg-2 content just fine with that processor. You may not be able to utilize all of the available deinterlacing methods for 1080i content, though.
<br><br>-chris<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>