Quality of TV with Pentium 700Mhz
Quality of TV with Pentium 700Mhz
If I install a TV card in an old Pentium 700Mhz and use a lightweight distro like Puppy, will the performance be sufficient to run the TV with good quality?
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Guess I am just thinking more generally at this stage and considering the following options:
a) old Pentium, Puppy & TV Card. Definately digital - either SD or HD? Hopefully HD if it can handle HD?
b) Digital Set-Top Box to use with an LCD monitor
c) just buying a LCD TV
If a 700MHz Puppy can run a TV card well, then I might go for the option with the greatest flexibility .. which is option (a)!!
a) old Pentium, Puppy & TV Card. Definately digital - either SD or HD? Hopefully HD if it can handle HD?
b) Digital Set-Top Box to use with an LCD monitor
c) just buying a LCD TV
If a 700MHz Puppy can run a TV card well, then I might go for the option with the greatest flexibility .. which is option (a)!!
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With Pentium3-700:
Standard-definition digital - yes (same MPEG2 codec & resolution as DVD).
High-definition digital - no ... unless you have a graphics card which will support XvMC video output.
See "MPlayer 1.0rc1 + XvMC Nov 2006"
under "Regarding XvMC"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13216
Standard-definition digital - yes (same MPEG2 codec & resolution as DVD).
High-definition digital - no ... unless you have a graphics card which will support XvMC video output.
See "MPlayer 1.0rc1 + XvMC Nov 2006"
under "Regarding XvMC"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13216