2009-03-14, 23:45
First off all i wanna says Thanks
I tried XBMC for the first time and i had allot of problems with one of my computers, Its a Dell Optiplex GX620 Pentium D 2,8GHZ with Intel 940GM, running just xbmc makes this computer scream and cpu is like 60-70 % and playing a video or watching sdtv channels the cpu is 100%. I don't have any problem with mythtv or vdr running on this computer its a very tiny computer perfect for htpc.
I tried it on my main computer Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2,4GHZ with Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT. Works perfectly fine way better than mythtv and windows mce although i used xbmc-vdpau. I tested h264 1080p, VC1 720p, WMV3 720p and live sdtv no problem at all, i haven't tested live hdtv yet because since i upgraded to vdr 1.7.4 i can't seem to receive hdtv channels i think the problem is my channels.conf.
One more downside with xbmc-vdr and this is really important, i use vdr-sc plugin which is software cam emulator to decrypt some channels and when i tune to channels decrypted by vdr-sc i get channel blocked i think since am not sitting beside my computer right now.
I tried XBMC for the first time and i had allot of problems with one of my computers, Its a Dell Optiplex GX620 Pentium D 2,8GHZ with Intel 940GM, running just xbmc makes this computer scream and cpu is like 60-70 % and playing a video or watching sdtv channels the cpu is 100%. I don't have any problem with mythtv or vdr running on this computer its a very tiny computer perfect for htpc.
I tried it on my main computer Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2,4GHZ with Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT. Works perfectly fine way better than mythtv and windows mce although i used xbmc-vdpau. I tested h264 1080p, VC1 720p, WMV3 720p and live sdtv no problem at all, i haven't tested live hdtv yet because since i upgraded to vdr 1.7.4 i can't seem to receive hdtv channels i think the problem is my channels.conf.
One more downside with xbmc-vdr and this is really important, i use vdr-sc plugin which is software cam emulator to decrypt some channels and when i tune to channels decrypted by vdr-sc i get channel blocked i think since am not sitting beside my computer right now.