> 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
