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 > 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. > Can I ask, what do you do for surround sound. Checking out the boards in the web I cannot find one with a coax output for audio, currently my Via board outputs surround sound via spdif via coax cable to my surround sound amp. And I definitely don't want to lose my audio quality!
Is there pass-through output of Dolby / DTS output available on those boards and I've missed something? Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
