No, your GPU is fine. Any GPU from the last 5 yrs or so is fine. My old 7600GS was adequate for 720/1080p mp2 and 720p mp4 on an athlon64 1.8Ghz yrs ago.
Your 210 and P4 are more than adequate for 1080p mp2/mp4 streams Ed On 10/14/13, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > While not strictly MythTV, the following test is related. > > I took my main desktop box (Gateway E-4500D, with 64 bit Intel Pentium 4 > CPU 2.80 GHz, running 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04) to the living room yesterday. > It has an nVidia GeForce 210, which has an HDMI port. I connected that > to my Panasonic plasma TV (TC-42PX14), a 720p HDTV. I wanted to see if > that level of nVidia card was adequate to for MythTV. > > Earlier in the week I used my MythTV test box to record Oregon Field > Guide, the episode about the ice caves on the Sandy Glacier on Mt. Hood. > I copied the mpg file over to my desktop machine so I'd be able to look > at it on the TV. The picture was clear and steady, and the sound was > good, too. > > Next I used HDHomeRun Config GUI to look at the stations I could see > with my little dipole antenna sitting on a window sill. Channel 10 has > good video and audio, as do a few others. Other stations had poorer > video and/or poorer audio. I'm guessing this is related to the antenna, > either the placement of it, or the simplicity of the Radio Shack dipole. > Also, channel 8 does not appear at all. Again, I'm guessing this is > related to the antenna, which sits on a north facing window sill about 5 > miles east of I-205 exit 10. > > Another test I did was to switch between the cable input on the TV and > the computer input while watching the same program. I chose the football > game between San Francisco and Arizona. The video from the antenna was > clearer than the video from the cable and, of course, it was HD, so I > had the whole thing, instead of missing a bit of the edges. On this > particular network it's not as important, but some of the networks put > the graphic showing details of where we are in the game in the upper > left corner of the screen -- all the way to the left. Apparently, > Comcast (and maybe others, too) chops the edges of the HD image to > create the SD image they send out over the cable. > > So, it appears that this lower end nVidia card is adequate. Any reason I > didn't cover with my experiment that would suggest I need a higher end > card? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
