Chris Rowson wrote: > > After having a wee read of the MythTV wiki, it looks like you should > be careful to ensure that your CPU is powerful enough to play HD > quality stuff too. > > "The minimum CPU requirement for broadcast HDTV playback (720p or > 1080i) with de-interlacing is a CPU such as an Athlon64 3200+ or > Pentium 2.8 Ghz, either Pentium D 820 or Pentium 4. Since the Athlon64 > line is much cheaper many people end up purchasing an Athlon." > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_HDTV#CPU >
That would work out about right, my system is an Athlon 3000+ and I just managed to play HD (720p) quicktime content with mplayer. Luckily with dual core CPU's, motherboards and memory getting so cheap now it isn't too much of a problem anymore. I got my laptop just before Dell started bringing in the Core2 Duo CPU's (I have a Pentium M 1.8GHz laptop). Eventually when I finally get the ok from my other half (i.e. after we've got married next September) I'm hoping to have another bash at building a MythTV box. Hopefully by then prices of LCD TV's should be really really cheap. :-) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
