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Hardware needs

  • 26-06-2010 10:16pm
    #1
    wolfric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭


    I'm having a small issue with my media center pc. I posted in comp+tech but wondering is it hardware so thought this was a good place to get some feedback.
    Win 7 32bit amd duel core 2.2 ghz 2 gig ram NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE 64Mb (Dimension C521)

    Runing boxee bare bones but it seems i have a problem with video. I haven't tested it with that many videos but i've been told that there's a slight barely noticeable (but noticeable) sticking for a few miliseconds in 720 videos while 1080 video ( i only have one atm to test with) either goes out of sync with video and audio (when running on boxee) or looks horribly scrambled and jumps with vlc.

    Now everything plays perfectly on my win7 x64 4gig 8800gtx pulled across the network and i tried on horrible speced laptop to do the same and all the effects that the media computer had were exaggerated.

    So do media computers normally have higher end hardware? I never assumed you needed anything special for media computers. Now i have it plugged into the tv vga 70fps and 1024x768 but boxee debug shows around 16-24fps and a good chunk of memory and cpu usage unused.


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  • #2
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭subway


    the only thing that might be low spec is the grpahics card.
    everything else is more than fine for HD video

    however, the graphics card does support h264 decoding.
    so you might want to ensure you have the latest drivers

    if that is ineffective, you could try installing the 8800 into the media pc to test.
    that should work fine, proving the gfx to be the weak link


  • #3
    pug_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭pug_


    That graphics card will only play h264 with the Windows Media Video 9 codecs. I don't know if boxee can use these codecs or not, but if not it would force decoding back to the processor and that could be where your problems lie.

    Probably worth while seeing if your CPU load jumps when playing 720p or 1080p content, if it does I'd be inclined to look towards a different graphics card.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#Features

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/codecs/video.aspx


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