[mythtvnz] Minimum CPU for FreeviewHD

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Aaron Whitehouse
<lists at whitehouse.org.nz> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>> I would think that everyone out there who is actually playing TV3 will
>>> be using VDPAU on an Nvidia GPU.
>
>> I agree, it seems pointless adding more and more cpu power when a gpu
>> does it so much more efficiently, and everyone says what a wonderful
>> picture you get with the vdpau deinterlacers too.
>
> Well, my thinking was that I would like a new CPU anyway -- I'm
> currently running an AMD LE-1250 2.4GHz that really doesn't have any
> guts to it at all and I only bought because the NZ-US exchange rate was
> brutal at the time. There is also the whole Free driver issue.
>
> That said, nVidia seems to be the standard answer, it seems to actually
> work and I'm sick of waiting for my 780G to be able to do it, so I've
> thrown a bid on an 8600 GT. If I get it cheap then I'll go down that
> road. I can always buy a new CPU and they only tend to get better/lower
> power (though the current exchange rate is quite good).
>
> On that note, I'm keen to take out my software encoding card, which is
> the card that has the remote on it.  New remotes seem to be around
> $60-70, which is more than I wanted to pay. If anyone on the list has an
> old USB MCE remote kicking around that they would part with for around
> $20-30, please let me know -- it would be going to a good (Free
> software) home.

the ps3 bluetooth dvd remote is cheaper, and those little, almost
invisible, usb/bluetooth dongles are less than $10.