[mythtv-users] X2 5000 enough to play HD?

[Michael Tiller]

This thread has me wondering...I was running an AMD 3800+ (perhaps even
3500+) running MythTV and having no problems with HDTV.  Furthermore, I
recently realized I was only running the 386 kernel (not generic) which
meant I was only using 1 core.

I mention this since somebody reading this thread might think they need a
fairly high end CPU to watch HDTV but my experience over the last 1.5 to 2
years (with an NVIDIA GPU) is that you can get by with a relatively low end
CPU in fact.

--
Mike

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Jake <jakeisawake at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> i though the setting was for multi-threaded decoding of mpeg2
> >> video...i don't think it has anything to do with making use of both
> >> cores in general.
> >
> > Almost.  MPEG-4, but has nothing to do with making use of both cores in
> > general.
>
> ok that makes sense. i'm only doing mpeg2 HD and when i set that to 2
> i get worse playback then with 1.  this is on a 5400+ on an ecs
> a770m-a am2+ and the performance is superb.  from the changelog for
> ffmpeg 0.4.9-pre1 it looks like they have multithreaded/SMP decoding
> for MPEG-2 so we should get that on next ffmpeg sync i would assume
> which will be nice.
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