On Sunday 20 February 2005 21:12, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 February 2005 17:47, James Lever wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > A few quickies regarding HDTV. > > > > A friend recently gave me his old Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0Ghz) CPU which he > > thinks is fast enough to decode HD streams. True or false? (short of > > XvMC or similar). > > With 0.17, could be true. I'm extremely close to being able to play back > HDTV streams smoothly with plain xv on my secondary frontend, which is an > Athlon XP 1800 (shuffling hardware around as I type to see if switching > from the onboard/shared-memory GF4MX to an AGP GF4MX gives enough boost to > get all the way there). Someone else just recently reported using a 2100 > and getting smooth playback (using the libmpeg2 routines for decode).
For me, libmpeg2 isn't making a huge difference, but enough that it, combined
with switching from the onboard/shared-memory GF4MX to an AGP GF4MX, allows
my 1800 to play back 720p HDTV programming perfectly smooth (still got
occasional stutter w/ffmpeg decoding after the video out change).
1080i streams still hiccup every couple of seconds. Wish I had a spare FX 5200
to see if that would help... Might just have to shuffle some more hardware
and get a slightly faster proc onto this board (I have an under-utilized 2200
in another box). I'm now convinced your 2400 should be sufficient.
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