On Tue,16.Jun.09, 07:51:15, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > > 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%). I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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