On Wednesday 12 October 2005 19:36, Guido Fiala wrote:
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 19:20, Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Morfsta ha escrit:
At the moment I am experimenting with HDTV on my Pioneer PDP435XDE. I can receive all the test broadcasts via Astra(s) and Hotbird. I use vdr-xine on an Athlon 3000+ (2.3Ghz), 512Mb RAM, Skystar2 and a Nvidia MX440 using X11 at 720p. The picture is perfect and perfectly smooth. Unfortunately I cannot receive the DVB-S2 MPEG4 broadcast of the SKY UK HD demo at 28.2 degrees East.
how much cpu is used with this setup?
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.
--Stefan