RE: [OT] The perfect system ...
> From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpopescu@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT] The perfect system ...
>
> On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >> Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching
movies,
> >> most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and
> isn't
> >> anything special.
> >
> > Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360
I
> > was watching video on my ~10 year old Dell Latitude CPx. 667Mhz CPU
and
> > a 32Mb, non-3D video card.
>
> Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p).
> I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz
> and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p.
According to Wikipedia [1] you are supported for VDPAU so why not use
it?
The SVN of MythTV supports it as does the latest XBMC for Linux. Or if
you want just a single application then just grab the latest Mplayer.
Just as a point of ref, I have a P4 3.0Ghz with 3GB ram box that
struggled to play 720p. It drained my resources but it was
watchable...barely. I installed the latest nvidia drivers, the latest
XBMC, and now it plays 1080p with less then 30% of the processor (720p
uses less the 15%).
It is really cool stuff.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU
Hope this helps!
~Stack~
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