<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Isely</b> <<a href="mailto:isely@isely.net">isely@isely.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;">
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Nicolas Will wrote:<br> <br>I've just yesterday put online a new dedicated FE box that should do<br> everything you are describing except perhaps the H.264 part. <br> <br> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856110065">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856110065</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>I've not seen that system before. I'm also in market for a good FE HD box. I've been upgrading my combined BE/FE to;<br><br>AMD 6400 in an <span style="color: black;"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">Abit</span> NFM2S</span><br>
Pinnacle Nvidia 7600GT in the PCI-E slot<br>Booting off an IDE, videos stored on a Samsung Spinpoint SATA2 Disk<br>1Gb of DDR2 800 Matched<br><br>I'm running this with Nvidia drivers with XvMC on connected to a 42" 1080P Sharp display using DVI -> HDMI cable on Mythbuntu. MythTV works great, though I'm in the UK so I don't get any OTA HD content.<br>
<br>However, It struggles with 1080P content from MythVideo - and its frustrating! I'm using latest stable Mplayer for H264 content and I still get major jitter on 1080p videos (less so on 720P). I can't figure out what's wrong, CPU usage bounces around the low numbers, but I think I may be maxing one of the cores in busy scenes. <br>
<br>I'm thinking of making that box a dedicated BE, and then putting in-place a dedicated FE so am in the market for a good 1080P machine. <br><br>Would you be able to test a 1080P H264 content on your system and see if you get _smooth_ playback, no jitter on slow pan shots? <br>
<br>For UK users, I just came across this site too..<br><br><a href="http://efficientpc.co.uk/">http://efficientpc.co.uk/</a><br><br>Looks interesting.<br><br>Ok, I'll stop rambling now..<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve.<br>--<br>
Steve Curtis [<a href="mailto:scurtis@fixation.net">scurtis@fixation.net</a>]<br>Fixation Networks Ltd