Several months ago, I successfully installed a mythTV frontend/backend with both HD and SD capture cards -- now I'm working on a dedicated frontend for another room.
I thought that I could use an old Athlon 1800 that I had lying around - which works well for SD, but not for HD. (Unfortunately, while the TV in the other room isn't HD, I would still like to be able to watch the shows I've recorded in HD, so I still have to be able to decode the HD stream.) I have an Nvidia 5200FX, and I tried enabling XvMC - but for some reason, playback only works for up to a minute or so before the entire system freezes, and has to be rebooted. I've tried quite a few solutions -- newer/older Nvidia drivers, tweaking NFS, rpm/source alsa drivers, all without success. Finally I'm considering upgrading the hardware so that I can decode the stream without XvMC. So (unless someone has a suggestion to fix my current problem) my question is this: given my current system, would it be better for me to get a cheap motherboard with a celeron processor (Intel supposedly decodes video better than AMD), or just to upgrade my Athlon? (And if I upgrade the Athlon, how high should I go for decoding a single HD stream?) Thanks for your help, ~Dean _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
