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<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 8:45:16 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [mythtvnz] Multithreaded H.264 playback<BR></FONT><BR>180.29 VDPAU?<BR><BR>Steve V wrote:
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<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>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Douglas Pearless <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz"><Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz></A><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> MythTV in NZ <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz"><mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz></A><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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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
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