jam wrote:
On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 [email protected] wrote:
I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
or video files over a lan connection from a server.
recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
Is there a Linux distro that does this or do people go for a hardware
appliance?
As others have enthused, mythtv on your choice of distro.
I'd never go without myth either HOWEVER the actual graphics performance is
aweful. Even on high end nvidea cards the display jitters, movies are 'OK'
footy or Motor Racing etc is terrid.
Even modest hardware is distinctly better and high end hardware eg sony bravia
is much smoother.
Odds are its your refresh rate conflicting with the refresh rate of the
source video.
If your putting out 60hz and watching a 50hz video you get all sorts of
jumpy crap happening.
We've tried Core2, AMD-X2, Intel and Nvidia graphics: Mobo, 8500, 8600 without
significant oooo-aaah's
James
Get something with a nvidia 8400 or better in it, you can then use the
hardware decoding on the chip (with mythtv trunk), 1080i at 9% cpu use.
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