<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Simon Allcorn <<a href="mailto:simon.allcorn@gmail.com">simon.allcorn@gmail.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;">
Hi All,<br><br>I'm trying to get some HD content viewable on my frontend and would like some help / suggestions as to what I can do to get this working. <br><br>I have tried to look at transcoding but afaik the internal mythtranscode program does not support H.264 and using mencoder takes many hours on my front end system, let alone the less powerful backend.<br>
<br>What I'm after is details on what config changes (frontend and backend) I can make to give me the best chance of playing this HD conetent with no transcoding - I'm lead to believe that my FE box is quick enough (if only just!) to decode this content.<br>
<br><b><br>HD source:</b><br><br>UK, BBC HD (1440x1080i 16:9, H.264 with MBAFF)<br><br><br><b>System:</b><br><br>Frontend: P4 <b>2.4</b>Ghz (single core), 1Gb memory , 100Mbit network<br>Backend: P4 Celeron 515Mb memory<br>
</blockquote><div><br>my opinion:<br>No way is that fast enough. Try a 3400+ dual core athlon64 or the like to do it with deinterlacing and never dropping frames.<br></div></div><br>The backend is just streaming to disk, so no problem there.<br>