[olug] Cox DVR questions...

[Adam Lassek]

The 8500 has a built-in DiVX decoder, but I can guarantee you the linux
driver doesn't support this. The media center software is also a factor: I
find the MythTV interface clunky and poorly thought-out, and Freevo is a
long way off from their 2.0 release, so I'm currently using Elisa. Elisa
uses the gstreamer system for video playback, which doesn't perform
particularly well. I have also tried playing hi-def video through xine or
mplayer, though, and even those can't play realtime.

I'm currently planning on building a new system for hi-def, but if that
isn't a significant improvement I'm seriously considering moving to a
Mac/Windows PC instead.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 11 July 2008, Adam Lassek wrote:
> >> If you do want hi-def video, however, make sure the PC is very powerful.
> My
> >> current media center is a dual-core pentium with 3Gigs of ram and an
> nVidia
> >> 8500 and it can't even do 720p.
> >
> > What? My 1 GHz Pentium M laptop can pull off 720p... (just barely, but it
> does
> > play realtime)
> >
> > Maybe it's your nVidia card or something, though I thought 2D worked fine
> with
> > them. This laptop has a FireGL 9000 in it.
>
> Aye, his system specs better than what's recommended to play HD
> content.  Maybe he's not running 720p from a codec that is video card
> accelerated ? Or some other driver mismatch ?  My p4 dual core 3ghz
> can also handle 720p with no problems.
>
> -Will
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