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Helllo
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Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject:
Minium Cpu and Vidcard for DIVX Player ? |
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I have a Celeron 433 and a Geforce 3 To 200. Iam getting a 86cm
widscreen TV and would like to make alittle DIVX-XVID media box for it
for my TV.
Will that have enough power?, i also need to add a HD somthing like
120 gigs, though i can network the pc to my main pc and use that to
play them as well.
/ps how much ram would i need in the system ??
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Jan Panteltje
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Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Minium Cpu and Vidcard for DIVX Player ? |
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On a sunny day (Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:06:42 +1100) it happened Helllo
<scampy@yahoo.com> wrote in <qmc4v0hf6ekugm7appisnfukb5p9lm525h@4ax.com>:
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I have a Celeron 433 and a Geforce 3 To 200. Iam getting a 86cm
widscreen TV and would like to make alittle DIVX-XVID media box for it
for my TV.
Will that have enough power?, i also need to add a HD somthing like
120 gigs, though i can network the pc to my main pc and use that to
play them as well.
/ps how much ram would i need in the system ??
It depends on the size and framerate. |
Also quality.
Your PC may do 352x288 at 25 Hz (PAL)..
It may run into trouble at 720x576 25 Hz...
Just try it out, I have 720x576 @25 in Linux with mplayer on a Durion 950
with many other things running:
avidump -i /big/movies/amaroo-2000.avi
[audio]: 48000 Hz, format=0x55, bits=16, channels=1, bitrate=128
[video]: 25.000 fps, codec=DIVX, frames=83572, width=720, height=576
mplayer -cache 8000 -fs -vc divx4 -monitoraspect 5:4 amaroo-2000.avi
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
14325 root 14 0 17204 16M 7124 R 24.9 4.4 0:04 mplayer
so 25 % CPU usage.
Maybe you can even do this on the celeron 433. |
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Helllo
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Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:23 am Post subject:
Re: Minium Cpu and Vidcard for DIVX Player ? |
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Well the movie IS ALL that i willbe doing at one time.
Ill try it out will keep me busy building it, got all the parts.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:50:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On a sunny day (Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:06:42 +1100) it happened Helllo
scampy@yahoo.com> wrote in <qmc4v0hf6ekugm7appisnfukb5p9lm525h@4ax.com>:
I have a Celeron 433 and a Geforce 3 To 200. Iam getting a 86cm
widscreen TV and would like to make alittle DIVX-XVID media box for it
for my TV.
Will that have enough power?, i also need to add a HD somthing like
120 gigs, though i can network the pc to my main pc and use that to
play them as well.
/ps how much ram would i need in the system ??
It depends on the size and framerate.
Also quality.
Your PC may do 352x288 at 25 Hz (PAL)..
It may run into trouble at 720x576 25 Hz...
Just try it out, I have 720x576 @25 in Linux with mplayer on a Durion 950
with many other things running:
avidump -i /big/movies/amaroo-2000.avi
[audio]: 48000 Hz, format=0x55, bits=16, channels=1, bitrate=128
[video]: 25.000 fps, codec=DIVX, frames=83572, width=720, height=576
mplayer -cache 8000 -fs -vc divx4 -monitoraspect 5:4 amaroo-2000.avi
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
14325 root 14 0 17204 16M 7124 R 24.9 4.4 0:04 mplayer
so 25 % CPU usage.
Maybe you can even do this on the celeron 433. |
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SL
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:42 am Post subject:
Re: Minium Cpu and Vidcard for DIVX Player ? |
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I have Divx/Xvid running on my sisters old awful E-machine. It is a lowly
333mhz Celeron with onboard video being shared on 256 megs. OS is Win98se.
The video eats 32 megs of the 256. I can't wholy compare as you have a
video card with tv-out abilities. Just the addition of a better video card
would make a difference I'm sure (on sis' machine). But there is no agp
slot, so she's out of luck there. It doesnt matter to her as its primarily
an email machine. I should think a decent video card with at least 32 megs
(ati 7000/radeon maybe?) would do it. I dont know of any pci video with tv
out, but Im sure they have to exist.
"Helllo" <scampy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:qja6v0tjnkcl8l9anlp4a2iarhmj0kbet8@4ax.com...
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Well the movie IS ALL that i willbe doing at one time.
Ill try it out will keep me busy building it, got all the parts.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:50:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:06:42 +1100) it happened Helllo
scampy@yahoo.com> wrote in <qmc4v0hf6ekugm7appisnfukb5p9lm525h@4ax.com>:
I have a Celeron 433 and a Geforce 3 To 200. Iam getting a 86cm
widscreen TV and would like to make alittle DIVX-XVID media box for it
for my TV.
Will that have enough power?, i also need to add a HD somthing like
120 gigs, though i can network the pc to my main pc and use that to
play them as well.
/ps how much ram would i need in the system ??
It depends on the size and framerate.
Also quality.
Your PC may do 352x288 at 25 Hz (PAL)..
It may run into trouble at 720x576 25 Hz...
Just try it out, I have 720x576 @25 in Linux with mplayer on a Durion 950
with many other things running:
avidump -i /big/movies/amaroo-2000.avi
[audio]: 48000 Hz, format=0x55, bits=16, channels=1, bitrate=128
[video]: 25.000 fps, codec=DIVX, frames=83572, width=720, height=576
mplayer -cache 8000 -fs -vc divx4 -monitoraspect 5:4 amaroo-2000.avi
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
14325 root 14 0 17204 16M 7124 R 24.9 4.4 0:04 mplayer
so 25 % CPU usage.
Maybe you can even do this on the celeron 433.
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Jan Panteltje
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:30 am Post subject:
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On a sunny day (Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:42:37 -0500) it happened "SL"
<pillott@yahoo.com> wrote in <guqdnfoXQ5PUBWPcRVn-ig@adelphia.com>:
| Quote: | I have Divx/Xvid running on my sisters old awful E-machine. It is a lowly
333mhz Celeron with onboard video being shared on 256 megs. OS is Win98se.
The video eats 32 megs of the 256. I can't wholy compare as you have a
video card with tv-out abilities. Just the addition of a better video card
would make a difference I'm sure (on sis' machine). But there is no agp
slot, so she's out of luck there. It doesnt matter to her as its primarily
an email machine. I should think a decent video card with at least 32 megs
(ati 7000/radeon maybe?) would do it. I dont know of any pci video with tv
out, but Im sure they have to exist.
One can calculate this: |
In worst case the card is 24 bits (3 bytes RGB and 1 not used).
In such a case the space needed to hold a 'picture' is:
720x576x4 = 1 708 800 bytes so > 1.6 MB so you need 2.4 MB
But one would likely run 800x600:
800x600x4 = 1 920 000 is also within 2.4 MB
There may be a flip area (where you write to one buffer while the other
displays), so worst case 5.6 MB needed.
Video is not really demanding.
Yes there are PCI cards with TV out. |
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Helllo
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject:
Re: Minium Cpu and Vidcard for DIVX Player ? |
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I have a Geforce 3 Ti 200, Svideo out i think :)
256 megs ram and Celeron 433. I think the specs i have ar emore than
enough. I just need a case to plink them in. It does not matter how
big though alittle mid or mini case would be fine, ill just do alittle
cutting and add some low 7volt 120mm fans in it, nice and quiet.
All i need is a harddisk realy and iam set, and how to get it all
working.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:30:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On a sunny day (Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:42:37 -0500) it happened "SL"
pillott@yahoo.com> wrote in <guqdnfoXQ5PUBWPcRVn-ig@adelphia.com>:
I have Divx/Xvid running on my sisters old awful E-machine. It is a lowly
333mhz Celeron with onboard video being shared on 256 megs. OS is Win98se.
The video eats 32 megs of the 256. I can't wholy compare as you have a
video card with tv-out abilities. Just the addition of a better video card
would make a difference I'm sure (on sis' machine). But there is no agp
slot, so she's out of luck there. It doesnt matter to her as its primarily
an email machine. I should think a decent video card with at least 32 megs
(ati 7000/radeon maybe?) would do it. I dont know of any pci video with tv
out, but Im sure they have to exist.
One can calculate this:
In worst case the card is 24 bits (3 bytes RGB and 1 not used).
In such a case the space needed to hold a 'picture' is:
720x576x4 = 1 708 800 bytes so > 1.6 MB so you need 2.4 MB
But one would likely run 800x600:
800x600x4 = 1 920 000 is also within 2.4 MB
There may be a flip area (where you write to one buffer while the other
displays), so worst case 5.6 MB needed.
Video is not really demanding.
Yes there are PCI cards with TV out. |
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