[mythtv-users] Intel Releases Programmers Reference Manual

[aaron]

On 2/1/08, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> A GF MX440 works fine.  I used one for 1080p for a while.  You'll find
> that you'll need to disable OpenGL transitions in MythGallery, set Goom

That's exactly what I was hoping to hear :)   hopefully it'll at least
be "usable enough" to last until I've saved up enough to upgrade the
other components.

At least initially I'll be sticking with SD, so hopefully my system
will be beefy enough.

I don't tend to use MythMusic or MythGallery all that often, but
thanks for the tips on disabling OpenGL. I'd suspected that will be
necessary, but now I know not to open tickets about the performance
;-)

> tend to crash, even if you have a system that can use them :).  Also,
> the menus won't be as "snappy" as they would be with a faster graphics

This I'm used to... from occasionally running the frontend at
1600x1200 on my Athlon 1.33 GHz (TBird core :) ) desktop, with a
Matrox G450 video card, and non-DDR RAM.

>
> I think, though, that you will need to get new HDD's.  What's a "huge"
> storage array for SDTV is tiny for HDTV (which takes about 2-8 times the
> space of SDTV).

Yeah, I figured I'll probably need to invest in more disks at some
point. I added a 1 TB MyBook (connected via USB2) a few months back,
and that's serving pretty well, but if I do go HD I figure I'll need
more.

Thanks for the comments, Mike. :)

-- 
aaron

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