Originally Posted By: Roger
Where I'm struggling is the front-end. It's got to be beefy enough to do the video decoding, but would ideally be fanless. This implies video-accelerated decoding.

A fanless Nvidia 8400GS card with 512MB onboard (ASUS) is the minimum needed for full hardware playback of anything/everything at full HDTV resolutions. A fanless 8500GT would provide lots of extra horsepower, but those apparently suffer more from heat/cooling issues.

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What's MythTV support for that like right now?

Not there yet. The development stream has it working -- I actually tried it out here yesterday, and it does work -- but that development stream is NRFPT right now. Within a year or so it will be there.

I'm considering doing a backport of the h/w playback stuff to the current stable stream. None of the Mythtv devs are interested in doing it, but really.. it doesn't look that hard to do, and tons of people would love to have it. Me included.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (04/01/2009 17:22)