Hi, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:43:14AM -0800, VDR User wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Niels Wagenaar <n.wagenaar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Only, in the US most of the HDTV transports don't use H264. At least, I > > heard from several people that it's HDTV through MPEG2. Over here (Europe) > > it's mostly HDTV through H264 (only a very small number of MPEG2 HDTV > > channels over here). > > You've been given bad information. There are _some_ HDTV channels > broadcast in mpeg2 but most are h264. > > > Currently I need to use a Core 2 Quad (Q6600 @ 2.40GHz) to get decent and > > stutter-free H264 decoding using software (FFMpeg SVN, Xine-lib 1.2, > > Xine-UI and vdr-xine plugin). With my Core 2 Duo (E7300 @ 2.53Ghz) I > > didn't had enough juice (stuttering, framedrops, etc). > > You absolutely do not need a quad-core CPU and your Core 2 Duo should > easily handle h264 decoding. I'd say something was misconfigured or > so. > > Btw, I use CoreAVC here and the cpu usage doesn't go above about 87% > on that x2 4400. The h264 implimentation in ffmpeg was very unstable > when I tried it although I heard it's gotten much better. And what resolution? 720p ? I have no problems in decoding 720p, but 1080i is a bit more difficult to decode. I have also tried out CoreAVC, but ffmpeg worked better for me. Regards, Artem _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
