Before everyone else jumps in saying "You shouldn't have given up..." let me just say, I did the same thing and got the same results.
I went from an Epia MII-10k to a mATX nForce-3 board w/ a Sempron 2600, and I am much happier as well. Like you said, all the extra horsepower means that XvMC is easy to ignore. I still use my PVR-250 to record into MPEG-2, but I then transcode down to MPEG-4. I set the original recording bitrate super-high to get the maximum quality on original recording, then transcode down to much lower settings. I end up with a slightly better picture than just watching the cable directly through the TV, and a _MUCH_ better picture than I ever saw on the Epia, with or without XvMC. I still get the odd prebuffering pause, but not nearly as bad as before. Plus, if I ever decide to take the HDTV dive, there's a possibility, assuming I can get Nvidia's XvMC working. Too bad that right after I made the switch, my HDD died on me. I'm eagerly awaiting the replacement so I can get back to exploring all the neat stuff that a stable, high-horsepower platform can offer! Micah P.S. Even though I failed with my Epia, I still would like to thank all the people at the Unichrome project for all their help and hard work. Without their support, I probably would have smashed my Epia to pieces, instead of giving up peacefully and selling it off.
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