Le jeudi 13 octobre 2005 à 07:53 +0200, Stefan Taferner a écrit :
I'am almost certain, that no matter how much cpu power you have, there will always be audio/video glitches with software decoding under certain circumstances - high i/o-load, other processes running etc. (a friend of mine has such a ultra-mega-high-end-system running XP but didn't hear and bought just a budget card - he must run the system completly unloaded to be able to watch TV, otherwise all sorts of glitches apear)
Windows' scheduling is not the best....
I have an Athlon-64 3200+ here and can watch normal tv while the system is completely loaded (playing my favorite online game) without problems. Under Linux, and the tv window is 300x200 small in this case. With a budget card of course (this is my test setup).
But I agree, I would not recommend a budget-only solution for a "production" system.
Then again you could put your budget card in a hush (or if you live in France in one of my Epia-M machines) and you can watch TV, record several others on the same transponder _AND_ have spamassassin filter your incoming mail without a dropped frame... Spamassassin without HW acceleration on the Epia will use all CPU cycles and cause dropped frames - I have tried. So yes, a budget card can be a production system, in the right MB.
[off topic]: the new iMac really needs VDR and a "watch TV" button in Front Row...
Tony