<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 24/05/2009, at 9:42 PM, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks for all the help, everyone.<br><br>Steven Ellis wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I've got HD playback working on an Athlon X2 6000+ but it isn't reliable<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with occasional issues on TV3. The biggest problem is finding a CPU<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">where you don't end up with your fan running at full speed<br></blockquote><br>So are you running pretty close to 100% on playback with nothing else?<br><br>If I bought myself a Phenom triple-core, say:<br><a href="http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_12842.html">http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_12842.html</a><br>would that handle it better? Is the stream encoded in enough "slices"<br>(or whatever) that an extra core would make a substantial difference?<br><br>I don't think the fans in my machine change speed anyway (and are quiet<br>enough that it isn't too much of an issue).<br><br>It would be nice to go for the 65 Watt TDP 6000+ rather than the 95 Watt<br>TDP Phenom, but having a spare core as headroom would be a huge bonus if<br>I am pretty sure that I will be tying up 100% of two of them. There<br>isn't a huge price difference between the 6000+ and the triple-core<br>Phenom (although, for normal non-multimedia desktop use, I read a review<br>that said the 6000+ was better).<br><br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Sorry it isn't slice based.</div><div><br></div><div>You either need ffmpeg-mt or the fastest MHZ cpu you can get as all decoding is on a single core.</div><div><br></div><div>Or HW acceleration like VDPAU.</div><div><br></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>