[plug] Motherboard/cpu suggestions

[Adam Ashley]

i have a tvtuner with hardware based encoding, makes things much simpler

Adam

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:25, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:09, Adam Ashley wrote:
> > actually you dont need anywhere near that grunt, not to mention your
> > going to have a hard time cooling it adequately yet still quiet enough
> > not to interfer with the sound. I use a mini-itx M10000 board as my
> > htpc. does dvd and divx just fine, all it has plugged in is the dvd
> > drive, boots over the network from my file server.
> 
> I'm surprised to hear that. My 1.5GHZ Athlon (with _fast_ video) often
> hits 50% CPU usage when running tvtime - I'd be impressed to see a C3
> handle it at all.
> 
> I suppose it could be driver-related (I use a saa7134 based card), or
> perhaps some sort of timing loop tvtime is doing, but it still seems
> odd.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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