[mythtv-users] Converted MCE PC to MythTV - HDTV question

[Justin The Cynical]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Iohan Reyes wrote:

>> It helped somewhat, CPU was lower but not drastically lower, went from
>> around 80-90% to around 60% utilization.  However, the stuttering is
>> still there and there are a bunch of "NVP: prebuffering pause" errors in
>> the logs.  I tried the suggestions in the "Tips and Tricks" section of
>> the Wiki page regarding XvMC and it still didn't help.
>>
>> So I guess I am just out of luck and a Pentium IV 2.26ghz is just not
>> fast enough for HDTV?
>>   
> Could be.  My Celeron 2.6ghz machine couldn't keep up by my P4 
> 3.whatever does fine with XvMC and can play most things without (some 
> 1080i content studders).


Could/should/is good enough.

My primary Myth front/back end machine is a P4 2.26 (Non-Prescott core), 
which used to be a 2 gig Celeron (pre-Prescott core) with a NVidia 6x00 
AGP card using XvMC, scaling 1080 to 800x600 and it only drops audio 
every once in a while.

I've also had HD running with an AMD 1800+ using a NVidia 440MX AGP card 
using XvMC scaling down to 1680x1050.