Re: [mythtv-users] what cpu is required for hdtv playback

2005-08-25 Thread Patrick Szalapski
On 24 Aug 2005, Reza Naima wrote: i'm building a system and want to use it as a frontend to play back (eventually) hdtv content. I ordered a 533 celeronD 2.6 as a first pass -- will that be fast enough, or do i need to go pentium4? Probably. I'm using a P4 2.4 and it can just barely

Re: [mythtv-users] what cpu is required for hdtv playback

2005-08-25 Thread Patrick Szalapski
On 25 Aug 2005, Patrick Szalapski wrote: On 24 Aug 2005, Reza Naima wrote: i'm building a system and want to use it as a frontend to play back (eventually) hdtv content. I ordered a 533 celeronD 2.6 as a first pass -- will that be fast enough, or do i need to go pentium4? Probably

Re: [mythtv-users] what cpu is required for hdtv playback

2005-08-25 Thread Patrick Szalapski
On 25 Aug 2005, Erik Pettersen wrote: I've got a slightly dumb question: Is the performance gain from using AMD64 on a 64bit OS more signifigant than if you ran it on a regular 32 bit flavor of linux but used more stable nvidia drivers to take advantage of XvMC (at least till the 64bit

Re: [mythtv-users] New to the list--Myth problem, mythbackend killed for no apparent reason

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Szalapski
Sorry about the poor subject line in my earlier message. You can ignore that and reply to this one if you want, or whatever, I suppose it doesn't matter much. Thanks again in advance. == On 23 Aug 2005, Patrick Szalapski wrote: Hello all, Just dropped

Re: [mythtv-users] New to the list--Myth problem (backend dies randomly)

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Szalapski
On 23 Aug 2005, David Ellis wrote: MythTV 0.18.1 will die if the signal loses lock while the backend is accessing it. I believe this is one of the bugs currently being worked on in the newest SVN release. So if that's true, Mythbackend should die when I unplug the antenna, right? I'll have to

RE: [mythtv-users] New to the list--Myth problem (backend diesrandomly)

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Szalapski
On 23 Aug 2005, David Ellis wrote: MythTV 0.18.1 will die if the signal loses lock while the backend is accessing it. I believe this is one of the bugs currently being worked on in the newest SVN release. So if that's true, Mythbackend should die when I unplug the antenna, right?