[mythtv-users] HD, the holy grail...

[Jarod Wilson]

On Feb 26, 2007, at 00:09, Tu Holmes wrote:

> A good fast P4 or high end Athlon will do just fine.
>
> As a matter of fact a Nice 2.8 Ghz Xeon will do 720p... Just not  
> 1080(i or p).

Some people have better luck that others, for whatever reason... A  
2.8GHz Xeon should be more than able to do 1080i. Hell, I had an  
athlon xp 1800 at one point that could almost do it, as well as a  
1.5GHz core solo mac mini I was toying with a few days ago that could  
almost do it. I have an athlon xp 2600 and an athlon 64 2900 that can  
do 720p and 1080i playback without a problem. My current Athlon 64  
3500 frontend gets no more than ~40% busy playing back 1080i  
material, and the clock speed rarely ramps up above 1GHz.

> Depends on your level of HD you require.

Huh?


> On 2/25/07, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote: >I wrote a  
> few months ago about problems getting adequate myth HD
> >performance.  I'm taking a break from myth with HD at least because
> >the conclusion then was that it seemed hopeless without upgrading  
> to a
> >dual core processor (currently Athlon XP 2400+).
>
> You don't need a dual-core machine to decode HD with mythv. It works
> just fine on my single-core Athlon64 3200+.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com