I can play 720p HD H.264 files just fine on my radeon x1200 (rs690) and Athlon x2 1700... CPU used by mplayer is around 20%-40% ...
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
New living room PC, which GPU best for Linux?
Collapse
X
-
-
Originally posted by BlackStar View PostWhich is why you use multiple cores for decoding (if you have them).
Comment
-
Originally posted by deanjo View PostWhich would require building against a external ffmpeg-mt, which is very raw, unsupported, and still lagging far behind in 264 decoding and offers very little over the current base ffmpeg in performance which is not multi-threaded when decoding 264.
Other than that, no it doesn't offer much
Comment
-
Originally posted by BlackStar View PostYou are mistaken: ffmpeg-mt allows 1080p decoding on Athlon X2 CPUs. This is simply not possible with single-threaded ffmpeg.
Other than that, no it doesn't offer much
Comment
-
Like the others says on this thread: planing/care to play 1080p content? if not, you can get less powerfull system, like, not-too-powerful AMD CPU and onboard ATI (3200?) GPU; or not-too-powerful intel CPU with intel newer (3x or 4x, but not GMA500) GPU.
If you care about 1080p content, then get not-too-powerful CPU and an NVidia chipset.
OK, I'll try to sum it up:
get the NVidia ION platform
Comment
-
Well when you get a 3 ghz cpu for less than 100 bucks then you have got optimal h264 decoding AND system speed. Those low speed Atom CPUs are stupid as a new cpu can use Speedstep/Powernow to save energy too in idle mode. That just does not work when you oc it with increased Vcore (over fsb 400 i even needed to disable EIST completely). I did not try a 2.8 ghz cpu, but i would choose something like Pentium E6300 and oc it a bit if needed. A cheap G43 would be enough, maybe even G41 but then you could not oc so well (also it does not support AHCI mode for hd).Last edited by Kano; 27 June 2009, 05:11 AM.
Comment
-
@Kano
For speed, yes, choose something like you've said. But if it's main purposes for htpc, then I still suggest an ION platform. With underclocking and undervolting, estimated power consumption's still quite big. Not to consider it's size
^^^ something that I accidentally meet when digging information. Too bad, still use fan for cooling.
Comment
-
Originally posted by t.s. View Post@Kano
For speed, yes, choose something like you've said. But if it's main purposes for htpc, then I still suggest an ION platform. With underclocking and undervolting, estimated power consumption's still quite big. Not to consider it's size
^^^ something that I accidentally meet when digging information. Too bad, still use fan for cooling.
Comment
Comment