<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 October 2010 10:22, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 06:14:01 pm Anthony Giggins wrote:<br>
> > That should be fine for MPEG2 SD content, I was running a 700Mhz P3 for<br>
> > my first myth box with an nividia 5200.<br>
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</div>Were you using XVmC? a 700 Mhz. Coppermine core is right on the edge of being able to handle MPEG2 in software.<br>
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Dell stopped putting hardware MPEG decoders in their machines about the time CPU speeds hit 500/600 Mhz. This was for DVD<br>
playback, so it was SD. I would assume they had highly-optimized code for DVD playback, so I'd think a 700Mhz. unit would<br>
probably need help, or be very marginal.<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes I was using XVmC hence the Nvidia 5200 :)<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Anthony <br></div></div><br>