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Hardware requirements for XBMC+VDR with VDPAU? - marcuszurhorst - 2009-03-17 Hello all, first of all, thanks for this great piece of software. I started to look into XBMC a little bit longer now, and I got subscribed to this forum here now. :-) Ok, here are my starter questions: 1) What is the minimum hardware requirement for the XBMC to run smoothly? 2) Can the VDPAU branch upload its GUI rendering to the graphics core as well or is a remaining task to the CPU? I'm wondering if I could insert a passively cooled Nvidia GFX cards into a plain old Pentium 2 board and do some nearly fan-less system setup. So, how much (or better how less) Watts do your systems burn typically? Regards, Marcus - motd2k - 2009-03-17 Right now, I'd suggest a PCIe 9500GT as being about the best 'bang per buck' out there. You can get passive 9500's too. Regarding the P2 thing... damn - thats pretty old! If it has a PCIe x16 slot it would *probably* work. The rest of the rendering has always been OpenGL, which is of course hardware accelerated. I'm running a few systems, the most efficient of which plays back 1080p at around 70 watts. Others have run xbmc-vdpau on Intel Atoms at significantly less. - marcuszurhorst - 2009-03-17 Ok, I found the Asus P5N7A-VM Mainboard with Geforce 9300, which should run fine. I gonna run that with a Intel Celeron S-430, this seems to be a good compromise for some performance margin for MP3 encoding or so. You're right, P2 is really old, but I have one here. :-) I saw a regular PCI based VDPAU card somewhere these days. Eventually, I give this a try in this old mainboard before I spend more for the final configuration. Thanks! - nanite1000 - 2009-03-18 On SD content XBMC-VDPAU with VDR patch doesnt seem to use VDPAU acceleration. - marcuszurhorst - 2009-03-18 Hmm, ist this only not implemented yet or even not planed to be working ever? I've read the Nvidia announcement of VPDAU, and I did not see a limitation for HD content only. So, this confuses me right now. Ok, my plan is: - silent and efficient HTPC - with a fancy frontend - for MP3, DVD, Images and TV + PVR - TV, PVR is based on a DVB-T card Hardware setup will be something like this: 7.1 speaker system <-- Denon 4306 receiver <--(optical cable)-- XBMC --(720p or 1080i HDMI)--> Toshiba 37" LCD TV So, is VDPAU not the right approach for this? - theophile - 2009-03-18 The first Google result for VDPAU tells you that VDPAU is a spec for GPU accelerated play back of "MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, and VC-1 bitstreams." That means it will work for most (if not all) HD formats and SD, as long as it's MPEG. VDPAU should work fine for DVB-T. - marcuszurhorst - 2009-03-18 Great. This means that I understood it correctly. Thanks for the clarification. Have a good night! |