[mythtv-users] Pentium M laptop as frontend for HDTV?

[Scott D. Davilla]

>Scott D. Davilla wrote:
>>>  My 1.7GHz Pentium-M cross-test hardware is actually using a nvidia
>>>  pci-e card, the on-board video is the Intel 910GM or 915GM (can't
>>>  remember offhand). If I get some time, I can try this with the newer
>>>  intel driver and see. I need to update that box to the new Mythbuntu
>>>  release anyway. It would be an interesting experiment as reports are
>>>  not clear if XvMC under Intel video chipsets is a viable solution.
>>>
>>
>>  Just an update, I yanked the nvidia card from my 1.7GHz Pentium-M ITX
>>  system. This is 915GM chipset now using the on-board Intel video.
>>  System RAM is 1GB.
>>
>>  Straight Mythbuntu 8.04 install using it's standard intel X11 driver.
>>  In other words, very plain jane.
>>
>>  Using "Slim" playback profile. 1080i decode and display onto a
>>  1024x768 LCD using VGA output. Top shows about 78 percent cpu going
>>  to Mythfrontend and Xorg. The Intel X11 drive is not the current
>>  version and cannot do XvMC but from the cpu usage, a 1.7GHz cpu with
>>  a Intel 915GM chipset seems quite capable of 1080i decode and display.
>
>So now go grab the intel-2.3.0 version driver and build it and see what
>you get with xvmc running.
>

Doing that as I type.