[vdr] Re: VIA C3 800Mhz

[Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de>]

Marco Hentschel wrote:

>Am Sam, 2002-12-21 um 15.54 schrieb Christian Vogt:
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>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Oliver Friedrich" <oliver@familie-friedrich.de>
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>>>Hi,
>>>If you only want to view DVB a Pentium 166 MMX is enough. But if you
>>>want DivX, than a C3 800 is much better ;)
>>>      
>>>
>>Sorry, but I dont't believe that DivX over DVB card will be possible with a
>>C3 800. Here I have a Celeron 700 (which should be more powerful than the
>>C3), but I can't watch DivX smoothly.
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>This is not true, because I was using a Pentium III(Notebook) with only
>600 MHz and it was very good (, for watching DivX on the PC-Display).
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>
This is definitely true, because for playing DivX with VDR the DivX 
files must be transcoded on the fly to MPEG2
and therefore you need a powerful CPU. For replay on a PC-Monitor with 
an DivX player a Celeron 533 should also be enough,
but thats not what he's looking for :-)

Helmut



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