Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Jun.09, 13:26:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from > debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is > not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. ^ in Debian Regards, Andrei --

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,16.Jun.09, 07:51:15, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > > Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p). > > I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz > > and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p. > > According to Wikipedia [1] you are suppor

RE: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpope...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:04 AM > Subject: Re: [OT] The perfect system ... > > On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> Determine what you want the box to do

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, >> most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't >> anything special. > > Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old D

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-13 Thread Suno Ano
>> If I was to plan to build the "perfect" system from scratch, using a >> motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, >> ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to >> jive up the sound quality - what might this thing of technological >> beaut

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:52:05PM +0100, AG wrote: > If I was to plan to build the "perfect" system from scratch, using a > motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, > ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to > jive up the sound quality