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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><PRE>I wrote earlier:
><I> > HD recordings on a HDPVR can be up to of 13.5mbps, but the real
</I>><I> > kicker is that they are single sliced.
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</I>><I> I thought a firmware upgrade last year changed this, so that the
</I>><I> device now produces streams with multiple slices?
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Upon looking over the list archives I see that I misremembered the
facts. What was added last year was support for variable-bitrate
recordings (which helps to ease the playback burden), and I think this
was done on the MythTV side, not on the firmware side (Or was it both?)
In any case, VDPAU has of course completely and utterly made all
HD-PVR playback concerns obsolete. John Nissley, the original poster,
is running trunk so he has access to VDPAU support, and if needed a
VDPAU card costs $30.
</PRE><PRE>Sorry about that. Guess I should have checked the obvious first. </PRE><PRE>I have an AMD 5600+ which I thought would be enough CPU to handle the playback burden but I guess it is not.</PRE><PRE>When I check TOP during playback I see that one of the CPU's is at 100%. I guess it is time to see if VPDAU works on my NVIDIA 8200 motherboard.</PRE><PRE>Thanks again for pointing out the error of my ways.</PRE></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>