[mythtvnz] A few MythTV questions

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Aaron Whitehouse
<lists at whitehouse.org.nz> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your replies,
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> What hardware h.264 acceleration? There is no such thing in linux. For
>> reasons why not, go ask nVidia.
>
>>> It recently occurred to me that my machine may not be powerful
>>> enough, even if everything was fully accelerated. I could upgrade the
>>> graphics to anything else AGP. Am I likely to be able to play H.264 on
>>> this machine if everything goes well, or should I just settle on MPEG-2?
>
> Yes, I realise that Gnu/Linux doesn't currently have h.264 acceleration
> for any graphics cards. What I am trying to establish is whether,
> assuming that everything goes wonderfully and Gnu/Linux ends up with the
> maximum amount of acceleration possible, would my machine be able to
> play it.

Thats a "how long is a piece of string" question! I suspect "yes" but
who knows without real world tests.

>
> I live on Auckland's North Shore.
>
> Also, I was wondering whether there is a software "Satellite signal
> strength meter" for Gnu/Linux?
>

Yes there are various DVB tools. myth will itself give you a signal
strength indication each time you change channel, but if you are
trying to install a dish the dvbtools will probably help. However a
sat meter will be asier, and aprofessional installer will have
something miles better than that.

> Thanks again,
>
> Aaron
>
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