<br>SVT HD here in Sweden appears to be 720p in H.264 at 50fps, so I probably need a serious upgrade if I want to watch HD.<br><br>/Henrik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 4:18 PM, Jesse Burt <<a href="mailto:genecide@comcast.net">
genecide@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:41 +0100, Henrik Beckman wrote:
<br>> Itīs h.264 not mpeg2, not my best day today...<br>><br>> On Jan 16, 2008 9:15 AM, Henrik Beckman <<a href="mailto:henrik.list@gmail.com">henrik.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>
> Iīve had USB issues with my A8N-VM CSM, my nova-TD hangs the<br>> entire usb subsystem if i donīt occupy my second PCI slot with<br>> an usb controller.<br>> So I swapped my A64 3200 out for a 2,6Ghz P4, wich gave me 3!
<br>> usable pci slots =)<br>><br>> Unfortunatly I found out yesterday that ther are some shows<br>> that I like that has aired on HDTV, can a 2.6Ghz P4 with HT<br>> decode 720p, mpeg2?
<br>> I have an ATI 7000Ve card but might be able to swap to an<br>> nvidia 6200 card, otherwise does the AMD rig have the oumph to<br>> handle it?<br>><br>> TIA<br>> /Henrik
<br><br></div></div>Henrik,<br><br>My laptop has a Turion64 @ 2.2GHz (should have virtually identical<br>horsepower to your Athlon64 3200+) with a crappy Radeon XPress 200M, and<br>it does fairly well with 720p h.264 (I'm trying the HD videos off
<br><a href="http://apple.com" target="_blank">apple.com</a>'s site...the 720p videos that are *actually* 720p and not 548p<br>or something else silly :). It plays back smoothly, with anywhere from<br>50-75% cpu usage using Xv in mplayer. I would choose the nVidia card if
<br>it's not much trouble. I'm not certain but I don't believe there's<br>support for hardware acceleration of h.264 (at least in the Linux<br>driver) but it would most likely be a better experience than with the
<br>ATI card. I don't have personal experience with a P4, but I can only<br>guess that it would be close, perhaps slightly better.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Jesse Burt<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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