<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Williamson</b> <<a href="mailto:bill@bbqninja.com">bill@bbqninja.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="q">On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Simon Allcorn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:simon.allcorn@gmail.com" target="_blank">simon.allcorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">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>
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<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.</div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Seconded. I'm led to believe a 2.3GHz Core2Duo is the minimum to decode BBC HD with the current state of code. My front end is a Core2Duo 2.1 (which is faster than your P4) and it doesn't quite work (I get pauses). What I do is use ffmpeg via a user job to transcode to a lower resolution since my frontend TV is also only 1366x768. Doesn't help with live tv though. I'm sure as the code gets better the requirements will drop, but I don't think the P4 2.4 will probably ever cut it.</div>
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