<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Steven Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm looking for a frontend for my bedroom. Currently I have a laptop<br>with a processor that is just barely too slow to do HDTV (it starts to<br>
stutter after about 10-15mins of playing back HDTV). I think its a<br>Celeron M 1.6GHz with 1GB of RAM and a Intel 910GML graphics card.<br>Other than the HDTV issue it runs fine, and it plays HDTV fine for<br>those first 15mins, then it seems to need to "chill" for about<br>
10-15mins to "cool off" or it just stutters constantly.<br><br>So I'm looking to replace it. I'm looking at some laptops that have<br>Pentium M's, up to 1.8GHz. I know the AppleTV has a 1.0GHz Pentium M<br>
and seems to do fine with 720p, but not so well with 1080 content, so<br>I'm wondering if anyone knows what the minimum Pentium M required to<br>smoothly play back 1080i with deinterlacing enabled is (since I'll be<br>
connecting it to a LCD monitor).<br><br>Also, what happened to the chart on the wiki that showed a bunch of<br>processors and their HDTV playback results? I was looking for that to<br>answer this question but it seems to have disappeared, all I can find<br>
now is the playback reports that only seem to show newer, exceedingly<br>fast processors and their x/h264 playback ability.</blockquote>
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<div>The chart is linked from the XvMC page, which, coincidentally, has been updated with more information about XvMC on the Intel chipsets which may help you if you haven't used it yet</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC</a></div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>