<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thannet@gmail.com">thannet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now this is not life or death but I currently have two problems with<br>
this front-end I am playing with.<br>
<br>
The motherboard is an ASrock NF6 with 2GB ram, and an AMD Athlon x2<br>
3800, tried both on board 6000, and also PCIe 6800, am aware I have<br>
problems with the audio, so currently set to disabled in Myth. Tried<br>
numerous profiles with varying degree's of success, but all pause at<br>
some stage. Mythbuntu 8.10 no patches applied.</blockquote></div><br><br>I found that I could not play HD h264 with a 3800+. Even with CoreAVC. You could try a 8 or 9 series NVidia card and VDPAU but that's beta quality right now. There is also a CPU upgrade. I found that the 6000+ can handle anything I've thrown at it just fine. The problem is that many h264 streams are encoded in a way that disables the multi-core capabilities on the player. So you're stuck with a single core at about 2Ghz to decode the thing, and that speed just doesn't cut it. The 6000+ runs at 3Ghz per core, and it does seem to have the power required to get the job done. I didn't notice any difference in temps or noise from the box, in fact, the cooler looked the same to me on my chip. I got one of the newer lower wattage chips. <br>