[mythtvnz] cpu requirements for h.264

[Jonathan Hoskin]

> quick query, i have a laptop with a dual-core T7500 CPU that I would like to use as a frontend.  It has an Intel X3100 graphics card, which won't help with H.264, so its purely software decoding.
> Currently running Ubuntu 10.04 (x64).
>
> It appears to ALMOST play back TV1/2/3.  The picture/sound quality is excellent, but every 10-60 seconds there will be a brief 1/4 second pause.  Apart from this brief pause, everything else is fine.
> It seems like i'm almost there, so is there anything I can do to slightly improve matters?


With a 2.2Ghz C2D, you're maybe 600-800Mhz off the pace? My current
notebook has a C2D T9900 (3.06Ghz) and it only just cuts it for
software-only decode. And it gets *hot* doing so.


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Jonathan