<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">is there a list of processors that work with VAAPI and "should" be</span><br>
</div></div>
fast enough for typical MythTV use?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Any Sandy or Ivy Bridge processor should work (the specs should say it has INTEL HD graphics built in). I am using a Sandy Bridge Celeron G540 (just about the slowest sandy bridge processor you can buy today) and it was powerful enough for CPU playback... but VAAPI freed up the CPU for comflagging and whatnot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In reality, if you have any sort of GPU acceleration (VAAPI, VDPAU, etc) there isn't an x86 processor made today that is NOT fast enough. Mythtv doesn't use that much CPU unless your doing post processing (commflag, transcode, etc).</div>
</div></div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
mythtv-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>My old system was an Athlon64 X2 4400 w/2GB RAM, using a GeForce GT 430 (PCI). I was able to watch HD shows with a decent amount of CPU to spare. In fact, my biggest issue was disk I/O, since I was trying to record multiple shows on disks connected via SATA1<br>