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by the MD's CPU. The core merely serves the files.
-Thom
You have to actually decode the MPEG stream... motion vectors, MBAFF, deinterlacing. etc
This kind of processing is exactly what video HW is for. Especially modern PC display chips, which are not only fast and have instructions tuned to the MPEG apps, but also have lots of parallelism. I wonder whether there's a way for a Core to harness a bank of nVidia chips to decode video into frames which aren't displayed locally, but streamed out to a relatively slow MD for display. Gonna need a fat fat LAN though.
For sure Nokia770 is cheaper but the Orbiter should be optimized for it. N800 works fine, without any problems. But 770 crashes time to time (especially on DVD menu displaying). I suspect it happens because the Orbiter just compiled for 770 not optimized and 770 has limited resources. Moreover, 770 loses some good functionality because Nokia doesn't support it anymore. You can use just OS2007HE which is stable more or less. So, my suggestion to use N800. At least now.
This is too bad. I would like to use a small touch screen on the MD to avoid having to switch on the plasma just to get access to music or radio. Any idea whether this feature is planned for addition?
You can use N800 for that
It is possible to use videos downloaded by Miro in LinuxMCE already. You simply need to "fix" the permissions on the LinuxMCE videos folder (/home/public/videos/) and perhaps create a miro folder in there, then in the Miro options (on your Kubuntu desktop) point Miro to download to that folder (if you don't fix the permissions it won't let you change to that folder for saving). Once you do that, start downloading some videos and they'll show up in the Videos section of LinuxMCE shortly. The one downside (and a reason for more tightly integrating it) is that some shows don't use a nice file naming convention, they assume you'll be using the RSS for your metadata and so when looking in LinuxMCE all you'll see is some obscure filename. Thankfully many publishers are slightly smarter than that.
Last question: what will be needed in terms of hardware to get this going? (CPU, LAN, GC)Yes, you will probably need at least all three of those...
Why?
GPU decoding only works in Windows and OSx for anything other than basic XVMC in nvidia cards. Whether you have a 6200 or an 8600 the cpu usage will be the same
Sorry guys! I did not mean to be rude to anyone. just asking questions and giving opinions. did not intend to be insulted either.
Can't we all calm down and get useful discussion here?
So my simple question is: is there any chance in the foreseeable future that HDDVD/Blu Ray be supported by LMCE? My understanding from this thread is no.
Am I wrong?
Yes... in LinuxMCE-0710 there is support for HD in the form of HD-DVD and BlueRay :-)
oh waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
waah waah waah
i've never heard so much crying in my life.
why don't you guys buck up and help us make this system better instead of waiting for someone to come along and do it?
-Thom
I think without decent support for accelerated video playback it doesn't make sense to create a linux based media center at all, because a lot of movies (bluray / hddvd ) are already in hd format 1080p and i do think a media centre should support those formats. That was also the reason i bought a full HD screen television so i could play back movies at full resolution.
