On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:51:34PM -0500, Doka Ben wrote: > A few posts have mentioned that XvMC and an Nvidia card can help lower > the CPU requirements for HDTV. Does anyone have any first-hand > experience with this that they can share? I've seen the P4 3GHz > mentioned with XvMC disabled. What sort of CPU would be needed if > XvMC is enabled?
I've gotten smooth playback of some sample HD clips with an Athlon XP 2400. Last time I checked, though, OSD and scanning forward/backward through the video didn't work too well with XvMC, so watching a show would be a semi-cumbersome affair of disabling XvMC, editing ads out, reenabling XvMC, and letting the show play without interruption (pause usually works). Maybe there are fixes coming tonight in 0.17 that will deal with these shortcomings. (The possibility of capturing HD video from a FireWire- equipped cable box is intriguing. They mention channel-changing problems, but an IR blaster should work.) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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