On Wednesday 04 January 2006 00:34, Ian Forde wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Ribe wrote: > > Another choice is an AMD processor on an NVIDIA chipset based > > motherboard. I have been playing with an AMD Athlon64 3200 on > > an ASUS > > A8N-VM CSM. Even without the NVIDIA XvMC support (it is broken > > in the > > drivers for the motherboard chipset), it has not trouble with > > SD. > > > > > > I should hope not! A 500Mhz PIII should do DVD res. MPEG-2. 256MB > > of RAM helps things along, but you can get by with 128. If you need > > to do MPEG-4, something around 900Mhz is probably necesary. > > I'd beware of NVidia chipset motherboards. NForce3 and NForce4 audio > capabilities aren't completely supported in Alsa. Especially if you're > thinking about using the SPDIF to do AC3... > > Been bitten by this one too. ;) > > -I
been working fine for me, both an nForce3 and nForce4 motherboards. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
