<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I've just built a PC with a ASUS M3N-H/HDMI. VDPAU is working, still some testing and tuning to be done.<br><br>I can view TV3 with around 12%CPU usage on one core. I have some bad blocking on fast moving objects on TV1, 2 and 3.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Steve<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Douglas Pearless <Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 15 February, 2009 5:32:39 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtvnz] Multithreaded H.264 playback<br></font><br>I'd skip the 780G chipset and go for one that uses a NVIDIA 8300, or <br>9300/9400 video chipset so you can actually use VDPAU as I do not recall <br>the 780G as supported by VDPAU.<br><br>I am currently thinking about a ASUS M3N-H/HDMI ( <br><a href="http://www.asus.co.nz/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=676&l4=0&model=2181&modelmenu=1" target="_blank">http://www.asus.co.nz/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=676&l4=0&model=2181&modelmenu=1</a> <br><<a href="http://www.asus.co.nz/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=676&l4=0&model=2181&modelmenu=1" target="_blank">http://www.asus.co.nz/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=676&l4=0&model=2181&modelmenu=1</a>> <br>) as you can set the video memory to 512MB which is the minimum you <br>require for the current VDPAU support, you can get this for under
$188.<br><br>Does anyone use / tried this one for VDPAU??<br><br>If you go for the above, I'd keep the PVR150 for the analog MPEG2 <br>encoder, dump the BTTV card (save your CPU cycles) and get a Hauppauge <br>Nova-t 500 dual DVB-T tuner so that all your front end tuners deliver <br>data that can be stream directly to your hard disk with minumal CPU <br>overhead. If you use a VDPAU compatible video card with 512MB of video <br>RAM then I suspect you can get away with a lower powered CPU, provided <br>you do not want to do lots of simultaneous recording, playback and <br>commerical flagging at the same time. I'd recommend you get a low end <br>AMD dual core and upgrade if and when you need to.<br> <br>Cheers<br>Douglas.<br><br><br><br>Aaron Whitehouse wrote:<br>> Hello all,<br>><br>> My 2002 MythTV PC has finally given up the ghost and I am replacing it<br>> with a new AMD 780G setup. We are limited to analogue
(one software bttv<br>> card and a hardware Hauppauge PVR 150) as we don't have the correct<br>> aerial or DVB cards. One day soon, I would like to move to DVB-T HD.<br>> I'm a long time member of this list and know about VDPAU etc.<br>><br>> I am currently trying to decide on the CPU and am choosing between a<br>> cheap Sempron LE-1200 and a cheap dual core Atlon X2 5000+ (or similar).<br>> What I was hoping someone could tell me is: what speed dual core I<br>> would need to decode Full HD H.264 in software once the ffmpeg-mt<br>> patches trickle down into the binaries? Obviously, in an ideal world,<br>> AMD would release open specs of the UVD2 chips, or at least include<br>> support in the Catalyst drivers.<br>><br>> If I would need some ridiculously expensive chip, then I may as well buy<br>> a cheap Sempron and replace it in the future (when prices come down) if<br>> I ever need to
decode HD in software. If I could decode HD on an X2<br>> 5000+, then I would likely buy one of those and take advantage of better<br>> multitasking etc. in the interim.<br>><br>> Thanks for your help,<br>><br>> Aaron<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtvnz mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz" target="_blank">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz</a><br>> Archives <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/</a><br>> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtvnz mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz"
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