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Old 27th June 2008
nniemeyer nniemeyer is offline
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IMO, 1GHZ will not be enough. My experience with playing Blu-Ray on a Vista (i know not the same) box has not been very pleasant. The machine has a Athlon X2 @ 2.5GHZ and 2 GB of memory and still jitters during scenes of high intensity. The machine is using a AMD 790G motherboard and is offloading some of the playback duties onto the onboard video and we are still seeing jitter, lag, annoyance. This may be more of a PowerDVD problem than anything else however there are not many apps out there taking advantage of the hardware acceleration. I am not sure the open source community has the information required in order to develop a solution to leverage the capabilities of AMD and Nvidia cards for HD content. I have a Playstation3, and luckily Sony stays on top of updating the firmware and I have seen no issues regarding playback.

Short Answer:
If decoding cpu only, bring alot, possibly quad core.
If decoding video/cpu, do your research, this depends greatly on software support.

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http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/suppo...q.jsp?FID=2576
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=808841
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