On Fri, 2007-18-05 at 08:43 -0400, Josh Vickery wrote: > I use an Intel 945 motherboard with integrated Intel 950 graphics with > a Core 2 Duo 6300 chip and 1 GB of ram. I can play 1080p content > through a DVI port connected to a 1920x1080 TV via a DVI->HDMI cable > (this is for a US TV, I don't know about the UK standards) without any > trouble. With XV video output a 1080p Quicktime trailer uses about > 40% of one of the two cores on the processor, leaving plenty of
I just want to emphasize here that for playing back HD content the graphics card is far less important than the CPU. AFAIK XvMC only supports MC and iDCT for MPEG2, which is becoming increasingly irrelevant. I recently bought a motherboard with i965 chipset. Then I ran out and bought an nvidia card because the tv-out support was embarrassingly bad. I suspect I'll be able to go back to the integrated video when I buy a TV that's able to use the DVI output. dischi has had good results with DVI and Intel GMA. However this might pose a problem for small cases, because with a beefy CPU you also want a very capable heatsink. You'll need to do some research here, to find one that can fit in such a low profile enclosure. You'll like want a heatsink that allows for a side-mounted fan. Although I've been pretty impressed with the temperature of the Core 2 Duos. They tend to idle in the upper 20's Celsius. Mine idles around 31.5C and hits 55C under load, as I let it run a bit hotter for lower noise. My E6600 was able to play the Transformers video (the h264 version) at an average of about 30-40% cpu usage (peaking at 60%) of one core. However I have one 1080p h264 video that my CPU struggles with (just barely, in a couple spots), but I suspect as libavcodec's h264 decoder matures this will become less of an issue. And considering the E6600 seems to be the price-performance sweet spot now, I'd say this is a good processor to buy. > headroom for recording and everything else. As for recording, I don't > receive any 1080p broadcasts, but recording a 1080i stream takes > almost no processing power, as my DVB card dumps the raw .ts to disk. > Recording an NTSC (analog) TV show uses more than half of one of the > two cores. I truly wish I could capture HD material. Living in Canada my options suck. From what I know the OTA broadcasts are slim to none here, and the only other viable option is DVB-S with Expressvu, at which point you're dealing with working around the Nagravision encryption. Does anyone in Canada know of other options? Can Rogers be made to work with DVB-C? Jason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
