[mythtv-users] Would this hardware be OK for high definition?

[Raymond Wagner]

Robert Moss wrote:
> I'd say mostly the Graphics card
>
> You really need an nvidia 6x00 or above PCI/PCIe card to do HDTV as it
> does all the processing. Otherwise the CPU has to do all the work and
> you'll lose frames.
You need a video card that supports Xv.  Xv provides hardware 
accelerated scaling for video.  Intel chipsets support this just fine.  
XvMC gives hardware accelerated mpeg2 decoding, however a 3.2GHz P4 is 
plenty fast to decode any broadcast mpeg2 you may come upon.  If it is 
h.264 video that is causing you problems, XvMC will be of no benefit.