[mythtvnz] HD Video jerky...

[Jason Taylor]

On 13 August 2011 15:43, Worik Stanton <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:

> There does seem to be a consensus that my computer is too slow.  Ok.
>
> Also someone mentioned that I could get an Nvidea card that would handle
> the decoding.
>
> What is the best approach?  Getting a brand new box is too expensive for
> me right now so I would be buying an ex-lease or second hand.  How do I
> judge that a machine has sufficient resources?
>
> If I go the video card route where is the best place to get info about
> how to use a card and with the plethora of busses how do I make sure I
> get one that will fit in my machine?
>

Definitely get a vdpau capable video card for less than $100 playback will
be flawless


>
> cheers
> Worik
>
> On 13/08/11 14:09, criggie wrote:
> > On 13/08/11 13:57, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> >> Amount of ram has very little to do with whether or not the vid card
> >> can do h264 offloading.
> > I seem to recall that 256 MB wasn't reliably enough, you were
> > recommended to have 512 MB minimum.
> >
> > Nowdays you're hard pressed to buy something new with less than a GB of
> > video memory
> >
>
>
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