Josh, Brilliant - thats exactly the sort of advice I was after :)
1080p is the top resolution I will need, and those sort of figures sound ideal. I'll check out boards with those chipsets and see if I can squeeze it into my case. Thank you once again. Steve. Josh Vickery wrote: > I use an Intel 945 motherboard with integrated Intel 950 graphics with > a Core 2 Duo 6300 chip and 1 GB of ram. I can play 1080p content > through a DVI port connected to a 1920x1080 TV via a DVI->HDMI cable > (this is for a US TV, I don't know about the UK standards) without any > trouble. With XV video output a 1080p Quicktime trailer uses about > 40% of one of the two cores on the processor, leaving plenty of > headroom for recording and everything else. As for recording, I don't > receive any 1080p broadcasts, but recording a 1080i stream takes > almost no processing power, as my DVB card dumps the raw .ts to disk. > Recording an NTSC (analog) TV show uses more than half of one of the > two cores. > > As for specific motherboard combinations, I would recommend the 945 > chipset over the 965 chipset because support for the X3000 graphics is > less mature, and the 950 graphics are more than capable of playing > back 1080p video. I don't think there are any Intel branded 945 > boards the support the Core 2 Duo, but there are several third party > boards that do so, including Asus, who makes my board, the "ASUS > P5LD2-VM 2.0". > > That's a microATX motherboard, and would probably work well, however, > I bought it because it has two IDE controllers, and I painfully > learned that that second controller does not work well at all. When I > plugged a DVD drive into it, the drive would play for a little while > and then stop responding with lots of driver errors. When I plugged > my hard drive into it, the machine would occasionally crash hard. > I've stopped using that controller, and since then the machine has > been great, but I don't have an optical drive. So, if you have 2 IDE > devices that you would like to use, and you don't want them on the > same channel, I would not recommend the motherboard. However, the > SATA support seems to be solid, and the Intel IDE controller seems to > work well, so perhaps that won't be an issue for you. > > Josh > > On 5/18/07, Stephen Rowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The UK is slowly moving over to HD, and I'm starting to plan the >> hardware upgrades needed to get my freevo system working with 1080p data. >> >> Currently I have a via SP13000 which has hardware accelerated MPEG2 >> playback, but doesn't do MPEG4 (I think the hardware might be capable >> but the drivers are not there yet). But either way 1080p playback >> doesn't work (just tired with the transformers 1080p quicktime trailer >> download). >> >> The limitation is that I have a ultra slim line case, which will only >> fix a microATX motherboard with a low profile CPU cooler... which is >> kinda limited :) >> But the case is gorgeous and I don't want to change it (case pictures >> here http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/02/22/hiper_media_chassis/1 ) >> and was one of the requirements for being allowed a PC in the lounge ;) >> >> Does anyone have any recommendations of microATX motherboards / CPU >> combinations with a built in graphics card that has good Linux support >> and will cope with HD content playback, preferably with enough headroom >> to record at least 1 HD stream to disk at the same time (e.g. hardware >> accelerated playback if at all possible) >> >> Cheers. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freevo-users mailing list >> Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
