<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 4/08/2008, at 12:04 AM, Paul Kendall wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Monday 04 August 2008 18:02:32 Steven Ellis wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On 3/08/2008, at 7:57 PM, Robin Gilks wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">...what would people recommended for a diskless highdef capable<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">frontend?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">That's about it as far as questions go - do the 6100 series nvidia<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">equipped motherboards (eg. a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2) have enough GPU<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">grunt<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to handle the DVB-T H264 and the latest SD de-interlacers or should<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I be<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">looking at a 8300 series integrated video solution (eg. Asus M3N-H/<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">HDMI<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Motherboard).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In either case, are there any small cases that won't break the bank<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(I'm<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">planning on an external 12v brick with a 200w auto style PSU for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">cool and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">quiet!)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was talking to Keith Packard last week at OSCON about the joy of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">trying to decode 1080i H.264 frames on Linux compared with Windows.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Basically for the next 6-12 months we need a damn fast CPU.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Can anyone estimate the grunt required for full 1080i playback in AMD<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and Intel CPU form?<br></blockquote><br>For an intel I use a 1.6GHz C2D and it occasionally stutters on 720p and <br>struggles with 1080i. So, I would go with a 2.2GHz for even 2.4</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the tips</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">For a combined frontend/backend solution I'm personally considering a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tri or Quad cpu setup so that we have N-1 CPUs for the graphics decode<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and a spare CPU for any backend housekeeping tasks.<br></blockquote><br>Using multicore is not really going to give any benefits with ffmpeg/MythTV yet <br>as they only use that on sliced h264, which ours is not!<br>So a Duo would be OK, but anything above that would be wasted.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually in my tests with mplayer it does scale across CPUs. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Next part is the capture device. My ideal would be the HVR2200 for DVB-<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">T but that isn't ready yet. Also the HVR 3000/4000 units aren't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mainstream either.<br></blockquote><br>Personally I would go with a Nova-T 500 and an HVR-4000 so I get 3 DVB-T <br>tuners and a satellite.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We definitely live in "interesting times".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>I am keeping a close eye on this gsoc project <br>(<a href="http://www.bitblit.org/gsoc/g3dvl/index.shtml">http://www.bitblit.org/gsoc/g3dvl/index.shtml</a>) as he is working on GPU <br>accelerated decoding with GLSL (GL shader language), and it looks promising.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes we discussed this at OSCON and it looks like it will be a real help. Sadly not something we are going to see in the shot term.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>