Re: [OT] The perfect system ...
On Tue,16.Jun.09, 07:51:15, Stackpole, Chris wrote: Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p). I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p. According to Wikipedia [1] you are supported for VDPAU so why not use it? The SVN of MythTV supports it as does the latest XBMC for Linux. Or if you want just a single application then just grab the latest Mplayer. Just as a point of ref, I have a P4 3.0Ghz with 3GB ram box that struggled to play 720p. It drained my resources but it was watchable...barely. I installed the latest nvidia drivers, the latest XBMC, and now it plays 1080p with less then 30% of the processor (720p uses less the 15%). I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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On Wed,17.Jun.09, 13:26:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. ^ in Debian Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RE: [OT] The perfect system ...
From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpope...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [OT] The perfect system ... On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old Dell Latitude CPx. 667Mhz CPU and a 32Mb, non-3D video card. Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p). I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p. According to Wikipedia [1] you are supported for VDPAU so why not use it? The SVN of MythTV supports it as does the latest XBMC for Linux. Or if you want just a single application then just grab the latest Mplayer. Just as a point of ref, I have a P4 3.0Ghz with 3GB ram box that struggled to play 720p. It drained my resources but it was watchable...barely. I installed the latest nvidia drivers, the latest XBMC, and now it plays 1080p with less then 30% of the processor (720p uses less the 15%). It is really cool stuff. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU Hope this helps! ~Stack~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old Dell Latitude CPx. 667Mhz CPU and a 32Mb, non-3D video card. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I do ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] The perfect system ...
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old Dell Latitude CPx. 667Mhz CPU and a 32Mb, non-3D video card. Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p). I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] The perfect system ...
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:52:05PM +0100, AG wrote: If I was to plan to build the perfect system from scratch, using a motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to jive up the sound quality - what might this thing of technological beauty be? Obsolete by the time you build it? Top-line sound card isn't a sound card at all. They are usually a card connected to an external box (better sound quality, all the analog stuff outside of the noisy computer case). Two years ago, I build a box: Asus M2M-SLI MB (built-in sound), 8 SATA ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, 10 USB, yada, yada. Athlon 3800+ 1 GB ram. never had the need to expand. Asus EN7300GT silent 256 MB video (nvidia). Two Seagate SATA drives. LG DVD burner. Hooked up to my 21 Intergraph drafting monitor. --- The sound was great through the stereo. The video was great with the nVidia kernel module (etch non-free) and the dvd codecs from debian-multimedia.org. VLC was able to have the hardware resize the image from a 1024x768 box to 1600x1...@75hz with hardware smoothing. In short, it did everything I wanted it to do. I had the 3800+ because the X2 wasn't quite available yet. Now everything has muliple cores, 8GB ram is common, terabytes of storage are near and dear to many (yet backing that much data up to something reliable is an issue, as is software raid sync time). Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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If I was to plan to build the perfect system from scratch, using a motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to jive up the sound quality - what might this thing of technological beauty be? imo it has do be defined what is a perfect system -- a gamer certainly has something different in mind that the audiophile has. Somebody like me for example, wants to have fast I/O (Input/Output) into his storage and simply wants a storage agnostic system i.e. managing the storage totally independent of the OS. So, for me the perfect system has to have a hardware RAID HBA (Host Bus Adapter) card http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/hardware.html#adaptec_31205_raid_hba Another must-have is a big screen -- at least for me. RAM, yes, enough but then I mostly never need more than 4GiB even if I have uptimes of more than a week or so. Well, I could go on but then imho not buying the 100% possible at a time but rather upgrading components ever now and then, is cheaper in the long run and one will have a pretty much high end system at all times. If the storage can be considered separate, that is all piece of cake. Here is http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/hardware.html#sunos_workstation what I put on my desk after 8 years of suffering a damn slow notebook :-] pgpXVRvdMj9Fm.pgp Description: PGP signature
