<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Thanks for the great info guys...<div><div>I've borrowed the wifi-ethernet bridge from my XBMC Xbox and connected that to the Revo and that has made all the difference! I have a much better connect (however still being G) and streaming a much quicker and more reliable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I quickly converted some of my existing divx / xvid media files to H.264 and definitely noticed the drop in CPU usage. When using MythFE to play a particular file the usage is about 25% and when playing the same file in Movie Player the CPU basically maxes out... Now i face the problem of converting most of my ~1TB media library to H.264... hmmmmm. This is probably a good thing however because it means that all media will then be totally compatible with my iPhone and the other Apple devices around.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The next thing I'm going to play around with will be the de-interlacer... the wiki has an entry on the VDPAU page saying that the Advanced x2 works well with the Nvidia ION. So I think this will be a good place to start. Does this add to the CPU usage at all?</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is simply a cheap testing stage so I do intend to run cat5e cable to the living room and to the two other locations I intend to place FEs.</div><div><br></div><div>By viewing the mailing list on Gossamer i always forget that is isn't a forum and a mailing list. In the future I will label my thread titles more appropriately. Non offense taken!</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Tim</div></font></div></span>