ATI Radeon 9550 running proprietary ATI fglrx kernel module anx XFree86 4.3. Athlon XP 2500+ with two Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T cards.
I can watch two HDTV (1080i and 576p) channels at the same time with PIP. On 7/29/05, Todd Ignasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just added a second HD receiver card to my MythTV box. To test both > receivers, I opened up a Picture-in-Picture window. It was close, > but it was a bit beyond my Athlon64 3200+'s capabilities. It was > stuttering a bit on pans and dropping some frames. > > Has anyone else done PiP with two HD streams? What kind of horsepower > is needed? > I suppose this would be a good job for a dual core system. > > A few questions/thoughts that I had on this are: > > - Can XvMC accelerate both video streams? I have an NVidia FX5200 > card, with XvMC enabled, is it benefitting both channels? > > - Are the VIA / S3 Unichrome video chips available as standalone > cards, rather than just integrated into chipsets? Or, do any of the > other S3 cards that support the full MPEG2 decoding? These could > greatly reduce the horsepower needed for decoding two streams. > > > - Any other things to look into for MPEG2 acceleration? > I noticed that mplayer, with XvMC, has quite a bit lower CPU > utilization than MythTV. > How about x86-64 mode, apparently ffmpeg is optmimized for x86-64, > is there anything like this available, or in the works, for MythTV? > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users