[mythtv-users] HDTV Woes

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Sat Apr 2 21:22:40 UTC 2005


On Saturday 02 April 2005 12:54, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:48, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> > On Apr 1, 2005 2:10 PM, Tom E. Craddock Jr. <sigtom at sigtom.com> wrote:
> > >  >Mat Kyne wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So my question that I lay before the all-knowing Mythtv guru's is
> > > > this, What am I doing wrong. Do I just need a faster processor (I
> > > > currently have a 2.4 Ghz Celeron that I bought just for this)? Or are
> > > > there other things that I can try first. Any help would be
> > > > appreciated. Thanks -Mat
> > >
> > > Yes, you need a faster processor. A 2.4 celery wont cut it.  I just
> > > barely got by with a AMD XP2100+.
> >
> > ummm no.  My 2.5 celeron does just fine using libmpeg2 for playback,
> > and no XvMC enabled.
>
> For HDTV res output? I'm surprised it's that's good.

I'm not. My 1.53GHz Athlon (XP 1800) is damned close to being able to play 
back 1080i streams w/a deint filter enabled. The cpu is about 70% busy w/720p 
material, 85-90% w/1080i material w/no deint filter (but major motion 
artifacts).

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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