On Wednesday 12 October 2005 19:20, Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na Morfsta ha escrit: > > At the moment I am experimenting with HDTV on my Pioneer PDP435XDE. I can > > receive all the test broadcasts via Astra(s) and Hotbird. I use vdr-xine > > on an Athlon 3000+ (2.3Ghz), 512Mb RAM, Skystar2 and a Nvidia MX440 using > > X11 at 720p. The picture is perfect and perfectly smooth. Unfortunately I > > cannot receive the DVB-S2 MPEG4 broadcast of the SKY UK HD demo at 28.2 > > degrees East. > > how much cpu is used with this setup? > I'am almost certain, that no matter how much cpu power you have, there will always be audio/video glitches with software decoding under certain circumstances - high i/o-load, other processes running etc. (a friend of mine has such a ultra-mega-high-end-system running XP but didn't hear and bought just a budget card - he must run the system completly unloaded to be able to watch TV, otherwise all sorts of glitches apear) Remember - linux still hasn't realtime scheduling for multimedia purposes included, KURT was once the right way to go, IMHO, but it didn't made it. ##A dedicated hardware decoder is therefore really useful for undisturbed watching.## Besides you can use a much less power hungry system and still have some cycles to make your box more than a media-center - mine is used as a workstation at the same time, doing email, internet, programming etc.
