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- BLKMGK - 2007-12-15 19:25
Doh, TY! Will fix ASAP, just hadn't had to do that before. Will be nice to get it back!
- tssgery - 2007-12-15 21:13
Jezz_X Wrote:No its not you need to manually delete the XboxTimezone.o file that it errors on because its not used anymore so make dosn't clean it
Also on another note the recent changes to video render has reduced cpu usage on HD h264 buy about 10% for me
This seems to crop up every once in a while.
Any reason why make clean can not do a...
find . -name \*.o -exec rm -f {} \;
?
- rodalpho - 2007-12-18 00:23
My old xbox finally bit the bucket with the infamous flashing red & green lights of death (FRAG), so I just ordered the following from newegg. It'll arrive wednesday.
Case: antec NSK2480 w/ 380w PSU uATX
Mobo: evga 112-ck-nf77-a1 nforce 7150/630i HDMI uATX
CPU: C2D E4500 retail
RAM: 2GB DDR2-800
DVD-RW: pioneer DVR-212DBK
Remote: MS MCE
This config ought to overclock to 3Ghz on stock. Using the old 80GB EIDE HD from my xbox for storage; I stream most stuff anyway. Planning to dualboot vista home premium and ubuntu in case XBMC/linux isn't ready for primetime.
Here goes nothing!
- Jezz_X - 2007-12-20 13:24
e-bart Wrote:Though slightly off-topic some more specs for completeness sake. This is for a Mac mini (with intel 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duro) running Windows XP and CoreAVC. We experimented with a 1080p x264 TVRIP of episode 1 of BBC's 'Planet Earth' series we found on the internet. (downloaded for testing purposes of course!) At the beginning of 'episode 1' there's a scene where you see thousands and thousands of birds flying over land. This brought the Mac mini to its knees maxing out both cores at 100%.
In case someone is looking for testing material. I think that specific scene is a very good benchmark for H.264 performance testing since it involves thousands of small dots moving across the scene.
Man you were not kidding about this I just got it and it even brings my windows machine to its knees with a core2duo 6400 2gig ram MPC and coreavc that bird scene makes 100% cpu and lags
- BLKMGK - 2007-12-21 00:08
Heh, I SO need to find this :-) I am in the process of getting one that is a .TS stream but I'm not sure that's what you guys are using as I've had no luck getting it to play yet. Is your test video in a .EVO format or what? I've got that movie in HD on my list but haven't purchased it yet. I've got to figure out UDF 2.5 support first anyway if I'm going to get it off the disk directly. I swear it looks like getting that support on Windows looks way easier so maybe I'll just rip from there.
- Jezz_X - 2007-12-21 00:12
its a 1080p h264 hddvd rip in mkv format
- f4ion1 - 2007-12-22 15:12
Just ordered the following hardware. Should be good enough right?
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 Allendale 2.4GHz
MB - SPDIF & hdmi out
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188021
Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811204005
- f4ion1 - 2007-12-22 15:13
With 2GB memory
- tssgery - 2007-12-22 15:42
f4ion1 Wrote:Just ordered the following hardware. Should be good enough right?
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 Allendale 2.4GHz
MB - SPDIF & hdmi out
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188021
Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811204005
I am certainly far from an expert as I'm just spec'ing my machine now.
It all depends upon what you want to do. That setup seems like it would do SD, and possibly 720p, but I don;t think it'll handle 1080I or 1080P.
I'd have gone with a little more processing power, maybe an E6600 or something similar. I don't know if the onboard video will do any 1080 HiDef stuff. Anyone here have experience with the GeForce 7150? I'd spring for a low cost, fanless, Nvidia 8500/8600.
- BLKMGK - 2007-12-22 21:36
The 2.4ghz chip can often be clocked North of 3ghz. I am running a 2.7gig chip and thus far have yet to see a skip burp or stumble - but have also not yet found this infamous MKV file :-( I'de jave bought a 2.4ghz chip if it wasn't MORE expensive at NewEgg than the chip I did choose - which if needed will also clock North of 3ghz.
The onboard video WILL support 1080P just fine so long as it supports the proper revision of OpenGL and shader. Since, for the one millionth time, the decoding is being done via SOFTWARE aka the CPU and not hardware like it would be on Windows the video card makes much less difference for us. The 7K series GeForce was one of the series that was stated, earlier in this thread, to work and I think you can even go further back but you want to have at least an AGP bus not PCI. That board looks pretty good to me!