<div dir="ltr">This thread has me wondering...I was running an AMD 3800+ (perhaps even 3500+) running MythTV and having no problems with HDTV. Furthermore, I recently realized I was only running the 386 kernel (not generic) which meant I was only using 1 core.<br>
<br>I mention this since somebody reading this thread might think they need a fairly high end CPU to watch HDTV but my experience over the last 1.5 to 2 years (with an NVIDIA GPU) is that you can get by with a relatively low end CPU in fact.<br>
<br>--<br>Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Jake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jakeisawake@gmail.com">jakeisawake@gmail.com</a>></span> 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 class="Ih2E3d">>> i though the setting was for multi-threaded decoding of mpeg2<br>
>> video...i don't think it has anything to do with making use of both<br>
>> cores in general.<br>
><br>
> Almost. MPEG-4, but has nothing to do with making use of both cores in<br>
> general.<br>
<br>
</div>ok that makes sense. i'm only doing mpeg2 HD and when i set that to 2<br>
i get worse playback then with 1. this is on a 5400+ on an ecs<br>
a770m-a am2+ and the performance is superb. from the changelog for<br>
ffmpeg 0.4.9-pre1 it looks like they have multithreaded/SMP decoding<br>
for MPEG-2 so we should get that on next ffmpeg sync i would assume<br>
which will be nice.<br>
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