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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>>I'm using VDPAU, so any new machine will be able to handle the load,<BR>>as the display is handled by the GPU. Since you will be using the CPU<BR>>for video processing, you millage will vary. For the record my<BR>>hardware is:<BR><BR>>AMD Athlon 64 5200+AM2 Processor Retail Dual Core AM2<BR>>Antec NSK2480B Solution Series MicroATX Desktop Case Black<BR>>Asus M3N78-VM AM2+ GF8200 5200MT DDR2 PCIEx16 RAID GbLAN mATX <BR>>Kingston DDR2 4(2x2G)PC6400 800Mhz - KVR800D2N6K2/4G<BR><BR>> -- simon<BR><BR>A little off topic Simon, but I was wondering how good your HD system plays. I have a very similar system NOVA -T 500 with ASUS Mobo with built in VDPAU capable. My system gives bad pixelation whenever the picture pans or if there is high speed motion covering a large proportion of the screen. It is worst on TV1 and TV2 much less of a
problem on TV3 and almost non existent on the Freeview demo channel 100.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I suspected the reception but I borrowed a settop box off friend for the weekend and I couldn't fault the reception, I didn't get the pixelation at all on the settop box.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My signal strength is around 53% on all channels with no masthead amplifier, if I add a masthead amplifier I get signal strength of 72% but it makes no difference to this problem. I get no bit errors.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It would be interesting to hear how your setup is doing.</DIV>
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