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[TheBoy]

You could always get a proper BR player ...like the PS3

Which will be stupidly restrictive.  No, I'll keep the MCE.

[TheBoy]

So what was the source - so we have an idea what decoding is required?

MPEG4, MPEG2 ??

Some video cards AFAIR can carry out MPEG decoding

h264 from a BR disc

[TheBoy]

% 95 load     really interesting...only one thing can make a 3.2 CPU this much load..Rendering heavily and the channel for the RAMS or channel to VGA is slow keeping the CPU busy..I see Xeon servers with many SCSI disks and heavy queries from bank branches not reaching even % 40 load..

But I doubt many Xeons are doing video decoding.  SQL queries, by their nature, tend to be bursty. Video stuff is full on all the time.

The VGA card is midrange - Nvidia 8500GT - so not the best, but no issues playing normal DVDs (which are upscaled to hidef, as the panel res is 1920x1080). So I reckon thats capable.  The RAM is old - DDR400 - so limiting slightly, but should still have the throughput required.  Disk access is not that heavy whilst playing (and having 2G RAM pretty much prevents paging).


The old OOF server was a 2.6 or 2.8 P4 (can't remember) - that spent most of its idle life around the 40% mark across 'both CPUs' (hyperthreaded), increasing dramtically during busy periods.  Its very easy to max out a P4 nowadays - they are quite an old chip now.

[Martin_1962]

So what was the source - so we have an idea what decoding is required?

MPEG4, MPEG2 ??

Some video cards AFAIR can carry out MPEG decoding

h264 from a BR disc

So you have the new drive - can I have it?


H264 does require a lot of hp to decode, your spec does seem enough but obviusly not.

I have tried HD H264s on mine and I get sync issues, but I only have a P4 2.4.

Is it worth having a hardware decoder? Like a H264 supporting graphics card?

Appears NVidia support this for a start.

[Martin_1962]

Your card has hardware decoding have a read of this

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t43593.html

[TheBoy]

Your card has hardware decoding have a read of this

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t43593.html

I was aware that the card had the ability to decode, but its finding a decoder that will offload. Nvidia Purevideo can, but is poor with PAL, so I haven't installed since last rebuild.  My version of PowerDVD is too old for HD, but if it works, I'll happily upgrade.  Actually, I think for MCE, because it only uses the decoder and not the interface, the trial will work indefinately  

[Jimbob]

you have pm

[TheBoy]

you have pm

Likewise!