<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Andy Zobro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajzobro@gmail.com">ajzobro@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;">
<br>I think I'm up to the challenge, but I hope I don't get shot down for asking too many newbie questions!<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>We're all newbs sometime. Some people seem to forget that. SVN isn't hard, just be prepared to read a little to get the checkout done and the build going. Sometimes code from SVN can be odd to compile, but remember to do a "make clean" before posting about a problem. Many times, something just got out of sync and rebuilding the whole thing can fix it. <br>
<br>I've got parts on order for a new FE that I'm planning to use VDPAU on. I'm planning to start with mplayer though, so I don't have to run SVN Myth as I already have a working Myth system on .21-fixes and I don't want to disturb it right now. The wife would not forgive me. :) The CPU I already have (AMD X2 3800+) is capable of doing software decode of the MPEG2 ATSC streams on the current system, so I'll stick with that for now and concentrate on the h264 stuff I've transcoded and such. For that, I use MythVideo and have it set to call mplayer, so it's an easy swap to get it going. The existing Mythbox has mplayer SVN building, so it's not that much work to get the latest code and compile it for this. If that works well, I can start looking into Myth SVN a little more. Once it gets nice and stable, I might buy a video card for the existing machine and a slower CPU. The AMD X2 6000+ that's in there would make a nice CPU for the upcomming fileserver upgrade I have in mind. :) <br>
<br>This stuff is going to make low end systems with a videocard upgrade capable HD frontends. That's really cool. Come to think of it, I have an old Via EPIA 6000M sitting in a box. I should get a PCI card and see if it can handle the load. :)<br>