<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 30/03/2009, at 11:49 PM, Tortise wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Steven<br><br>Re CPU I was quoting from <a href="http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun_dvbt">http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun_dvbt</a> I expect you are correct.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Out of interest what signal strength and quality are you testing with?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My office has somewhat lower signal strength due to additional splitters, but around 62/59 as shown here</div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/images/hdhomerun/linux_gui.jpg">http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/images/hdhomerun/linux_gui.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>The only picture break up I tend to see is down to the CPU, or if i'm streaming over a wireless network.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>I've moved my unit up to the top of the antennae tree here to now get 100% strength and 85-87% quality. It probably improves things <br>a little, the issues continue, just less so. Video breaks on TV1 do not seem associated with any appreciable S/Q % reduction's <br>outside the minor variation that occurs, instead they do seem to be associated with major video scene changes. TV1 is curiously and <br>currently displaying better than C4. I look forward to running up a VDPAU box.<br><br>Kind regards<br>David<br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Steven Ellis" <<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>><br>To: "MythTV in NZ" <<a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a>><br>Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 6:55 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] HDHomerun - VLC on Linux - Yes - well sort of!<br><br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Silicon Dust's website suggests the 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 (or similar) for HD<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">playback is the minimum hardware specification. The test rig seems to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">exceed that. Seems to me the solution likely also lies in VDPAU, however<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for me even C4 does not play smoothly, I would have thought there was<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">enough grunt to manage C4, certainly SD MPEG2's of the same C4 content<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">play fine, so perhaps there are things they can address?? Problems also<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could lie in the antennae strength (seems unlikely given other DVB-T gear<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is receiving ok) VLC's ability to play, maybe the LAN or ? Given the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">HDHomeRun is new to the NZ DVB-T market it would not surprise me if some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">firmware upgrades prove to be necessary to get this working to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">standard I was expecting.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>sadly the Silicon Dust specs are for HD MPEG2 broadcasts like the US and<br>AU. The specs for HD H.264 like NZ are far greater. My X2-6000+ can do<br>TV1/2 but sometimes struggles with TV3. On my single core 3200+ I can do<br>the SD channels (C4 etc) but even TV1/2 struggle.<br><br>Really we need VDPAU or similar hardware acceleration for HD playback.<br>Your signal strength is a little low but nothing extreme.<br><br>Steve<br><br><br>--------------------------------------------<br>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited - The Home of myPVR<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><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtvnz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br>http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz<br>Archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/ <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtvnz mailing list<br>mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz<br>http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz<br>Archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/<br></div></blockquote></div><br><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>