[nofam]

Hi All,

I'm thinking about turning an old P4 3.0Ghz PC into an XBMC machine, and I have two key questions:

- To take advantage of VDPAU, I'm planning on adding an Asus EN9400GT car (the silent one). Exactly what does the VDPAU unload to the card (i.e. with a fast card and slow CPU will I get slow menu's and clean video, or the other way around etc?)

- What's the best distro to go with? I'd like to be able to surf the net, and run a torrent client, but obviously with my low spec, the lighter the distro the better, as I was it to be as quick as possible to load etc.

Cheers!

[Maxim]

The menus mostly done with the CPU.

The video is mostly handled by VDPAU. For specific format support see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU

[althekiller]

You'll be fine with that CPU and any VDPAU capable card with 512MB VRAM or better.