[mythtvnz] Minimum CPU for FreeviewHD

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I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 SLB9K (E0) 3166 MHz 6 MB 1333 MT/s 9.5x 0.85 - 1.3625 V 65 W LGA775 plays TV3 HD on VLC on its own 
with some spare headroom, about 70% as I recall.  Interestingly it keeps swapping cores when playing according to System Resources. 
No VDPAU used here but using ...sorry...NVIDIA 8500GT.  Its produces the best HD I've run up so far, but then I am a VDPAU beginner 
so that may yet be superior.
If someone can point me to a URL on how to run up a VDPAU version of mplayer that's compatible with JYA's mythbuntu I'll test TV3 HD 
on an AMD single core 2400 with VDPAU!  Currently it errors saying too many video packets in the buffer.
Kind regards
David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Whitehouse" <lists at whitehouse.org.nz>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Minimum CPU for FreeviewHD


Thanks for all the help, everyone.

Steven Ellis wrote:

> I've got HD playback working on an Athlon X2 6000+ but it isn't reliable
> with occasional issues on TV3. The biggest problem is finding a CPU
> where you don't end up with your fan running at full speed

So are you running pretty close to 100% on playback with nothing else?

If I bought myself a Phenom triple-core, say:
http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_12842.html
would that handle it better?  Is the stream encoded in enough "slices"
(or whatever) that an extra core would make a substantial difference?

I don't think the fans in my machine change speed anyway (and are quiet
enough that it isn't too much of an issue).

It would be nice to go for the 65 Watt TDP 6000+ rather than the 95 Watt
TDP Phenom, but having a spare core as headroom would be a huge bonus if
I am pretty sure that I will be tying up 100% of two of them. There
isn't a huge price difference between the 6000+ and the triple-core
Phenom (although, for normal non-multimedia desktop use, I read a review
that said the 6000+ was better).

Thanks again,

Aaron

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