I currently have a ASUS Pundit (non-R) with a P4 3.06 Ghz w/HT processor and 512MB of RAM. I have yet been unable to view 1080i and 720p live or recorded (non-transcoded) programs without getting 100% CPU usage dropped frames. This is when I am outputting to S-Video to my NTSC TV. Over 40% of the CPU was being used by X and I think this is because it is resizing the video to be output via S-Video. I have no empty PCI slots to add a nVidia video card that can handle XvMC.
So, I have decided to replace my Pundit with a new from-scratch computer. After some research I'm thinking of buying the following components. I'd like to get anyone's opinion on my choices. - Athalon 3000+ Venice (is Athalon 64 with SSE3) - Chaintech VNF4 Ultra motherboard (has nVidia nForce4 Ultra chipset) - Albatron Geforce PCX5300 128MB PCI-Express video card Any comments/recomendations are greatly appreciated. --Jason _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
