You should be able to handle HD while using XvMC. I ran it on a Athlon 1800+ just barely. I would suggest getting a sample of HD video to test it. <br><br><br>Mitchell<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Mike Diehl</b> <<a href="mailto:mdiehl@diehlnet.com">mdiehl@diehlnet.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all.<br><br>Looks like my 250 just died so I'm needing to replace it.<br><br>I'm considering buying an HD tuner. I've got an Nvidia 5200 AGP graphics card<br>and an AMD 2600+ CPU. I've been using KnoppMyth but eventually intend to
<br>reinstall under Gentoo.<br><br>So my question is, does my system have enough horsepower to handle HD? If<br>not, should I simply replace the 250 with another one? I'd like to have two<br>tuners, but I understand there are problems with the 500. Is this still
<br>true?<br><br>TIA,<br><br>--<br>Mike Diehl<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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