Re: Digital TV card support

hether my Athlon64 3000+ would be fast enough
to decode HDTV and still let me work in parallel with
the system? (with my ATI Radeon 9600XT and SNAP 3.1.5 Pro)

Update: I have run some test on an I865G system with a P4 3.0GHz.
It looks like this hardware can handle it. CPU load is at 70%.
However, I doubt about the Radeon 9600. SNAP will be O.K., but
I'd update to the next version, which will most likely contain
some overlay fixes ;-).

I tried meanwhile some WMV-HD videos from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
(Robotica 1280x720p and 1440x1080p, Coral Reef 1440x1080p)
The exe files are ZIP self extractors which can be unpacked with unzip.

Under XP on the same machine I get for the 1080p videos a system
load between 55% and 80% depending on the complexity of the content.

I also tried with WarpVision GA on eCS 1.15 and it plays the WMV-HD
videos and DIVE output just fine, though without audio. With SNAP overlay
and WO I only get a black window. The system load with DIVE is not
much higher than on XP, just between 60% and 85%. And the system is
still quite snappy :) .
On XP I converted the WMV files to DIVX5 but the converter always
reduced the resolution to 960x720. These played fine as well with WV.

Last time I figured out that SNAP output doesn't provide any benefit
on my card. The system load is identical when watching a DVD.
And with DIVE the system seems to be much more stable.
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