[mythtv-users] Is this system just too old?

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Thu Oct 7 00:39:53 UTC 2010


On 7 October 2010 10:22, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 06:14:01 pm Anthony Giggins wrote:
> > > That should be fine for MPEG2 SD content, I was running a 700Mhz P3 for
> > > my first myth box with an nividia 5200.
>
>
> Were you using XVmC?  a 700 Mhz. Coppermine core is right on the edge of
> being able to handle MPEG2 in software.
>
> Dell stopped putting hardware MPEG decoders in their machines about the
> time CPU speeds hit 500/600 Mhz. This was for DVD
> playback, so it was SD. I would assume they had highly-optimized code for
> DVD playback, so I'd think a 700Mhz. unit would
> probably need help, or be very marginal.
>
>
>
Yes I was using XVmC hence the Nvidia 5200 :)

Cheers,

Anthony
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