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Originally Posted by brundles
keithwalton - I was afraid of that - they seem to have taken a low end board (actually, is that that low end for a 3 year old PC?) and made it lower.
popper - That's pretty much spot on - it came from an iXtreme 5 something or other. The limits on there match with those I read on the stuff that came with it after digging through.
I'm still playing around with rebuilding mplayer and the CoreAVC side of things at the moment. There is still a (fairly) clean Windows install on there (although from the recent "stealth patch" debacle I think Windows update is now broken on it) so I'll try CoreAVC on that to see whether it can cope on the Windows side too. From some of the posts I've found I think it's going to be borderline even with CoreAVC - although I'm still hopeful! The bulk of the files are 720p, 5.1 audio rolling in at about a gig for 40 minutes - not sure about the container though.
I may well be trawling through the many threads on here for mobo and cpu recommendations soon.
Oh, something else I came across yesterday that looked interesting was a mention of much greater levels of support for the onboard Intel chips to help with this sort of stuff instead of a seperate graphics card. But Intel and ATI now both seem to be offering better (i.e. more open and more complete) support for Linux now than Nvidia as you mentioned popper.
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thats easy for the cheapest expandable way, just take what you already have, and get a ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA PT880 Ultra Socket 775 and a cheap celeron 2.8Gig CPU to put in there to just get it up and running.
total price at the time to get the lads machine slightly above his old AMD i payed around £67.
i did a simple 2 minute bios overclock for it with ddr400 in there, and it ran at 3.4 on a crappy standard cooler that came in the retail box, infact i spend more time fitting that cooler as the plastic clips were out of spec and kept popping out the MB, i ended up bending the cooler legs down to take off the presure on the clips and it worked fine.
that machine with its ATI X1550 played all the AVC great, far better than any of the older ones, still adding to it as time passes, sometime ill put a Q6600 in there.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...l#post34369550
'the only real downside was it only has 2 SATA for later, and takes only 2 sticks of eather DDR or DDR2.'
'the Intel ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA (IDE[4]/SATA[2], DDR/DDR2, AGP/PCi-Express)'
iv found out since that you can run both the AGP and PCi-E at the same time at no loss of speed.
BTW ,
BetaBoy the core CEO , finally gave some release info about the CoreAVC
Encoder.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...29#post1049629
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Lastly.... 'drum roll please'......
I'd like to annouce that starting in late October we will be doing a closed (initially) beta for our upcoming CoreAVC Encoder Editions. Please no PM's yet on it but so far I think that ppl will be happy with whats coming (I know we are). We will ask some of the Doom9 Elite at first to have a go and tell us what they are finding."
that might be interesting in time.
i do wonder if they will get the same or even better Encoder speeds as the ATI Xcode software encoder, but with far more options as per the AVC/H.264 standard.....
(NOT FOR BEGINNERS) but for the extream,this search will give you some insight into how fast you can take it, and even simple CPU pencil,blanking tape mods.
http://search.virginmedia.com/result...l-VSTA+mods&cr=
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=125970
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=93127
http://sg.vr-zone.com/?i=757