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ihatetivo
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:34 am |
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Here are popular isolation exercises that you should avoid. carefully reviewed by both NIDDK scientists and about eating only fruit in the morning. The same is true if you tend to
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Grant_Edwards
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:28 pm |
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Yes, if you want to playback HD on a machine that's too slow to
decode in real-time (have you looked into xvmc with NVidia
cards?), then transcoding is probably the solution. You can
either use Myth's built-in transcoder (which transodes to MP4,
IIRC), or create a user-job and shell-script that uses mencoder
or transcode to transcode to anything you like.
If you search the archives, there are a couple examples of
shell-scripts that people have set up as user-jobs to do
transcoding of HD into SD.
It depends on what your local broadcasters are doing, but in
most areas there's a lot of SD digital OTA programming
available that just about any machine should be able to decode
in real-time.
--
Grant
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mogator88
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:59 pm |
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I think your pvr-250 has been doing the transcoding for you in real time. An OTA signal is digital - a bunch of 0's and 1's. The transcoding can take several hours with an older system. However sometimes simple enhancements like a faster CPU, or a graphics card, are all that is needed for playback of HD recordings. Give us your specs and we can give you some suggestions.
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ihatetivo
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:54 am |
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mogator88 wrote: I think your pvr-250 has been doing the transcoding for you in real time. An OTA signal is digital - a bunch of 0's and 1's. The transcoding can take several hours with an older system. However sometimes simple enhancements like a faster CPU, or a graphics card, are all that is needed for playback of HD recordings. Give us your specs and we can give you some suggestions.
Most of my system's spec's are in my signature. However, if more info is needed, I'll gladly post it.
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mogator88
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:55 am |
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Sorry, I forgot that the signature disappears when making a reply.
For HD playback I'd recommend 1gb ram, a 5200 card with 256mb of ram (don't know what yours has) and a 2.4 ghz P4, this is what my bedroom unit has.
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turpie
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:36 pm |
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ihatetivo
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:28 am |
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OK. For the record, here is my current hardware:
R5.5; PVR-250; FX5200; Dell 4300 with Intel Pentium 4 (1.5 GHz);
BIOS Revision A02; 512MB RAM; 500GB PATA HDD
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cahlfors
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:38 am |
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I think your system will do for standard definition. It was previously encoding analog to mpeg2. Now it will decode the mpeg2 stream instead. 800MHz P3 systems seem to be the minimum to do that, but it also seems to depend on the graphics adapter.
Recording DTV is nothing. All the backend does is to shuffle the bitstream to disk.
Cheers,
/Chris
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cliffsjunk
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:45 pm |
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My wild guess is that would have been a strong enough
machine to downconvert 720p to standard def during playback
if you are using the full capabilities of the FX5200.
As Grant_Edwards asked earlier (and every word of this is
significant): "Have you looked into xvmc with NVidia
cards?"
That FX5200 is Nvidia, right? If it is AGP it is probably fast
enough. If it is PCIX is is probably fast enough. If it is straight
PCI it may be too slow...
In R5.5 create a custom playback profile (Settings -> TV
Settings -> Playback -> Page3) to make sure you are using
XVMC. For earlier versions there is a global setting for all
resolutions somewhere where you can tell it to use XVMC.
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