Speed Tweaks for Budget PVRs

[Filip]

What about TinyXP?

My experience with installs like that (XP Lite) is that functionality is reduced so much that many apps don't run. Then you spend a lot of time figuring out what it is that you're missing. I know that author claims that everything else will run except MS Office, but I have a hard time believing that. I'm open to anything though; perhaps you should test it out for us

[Filip]

Directshow and GDI+ wont really be helped too much with the types of tweaks listed above, so raw CPU speed is still very important.

Sub,

Is it possible to increase GDI+ drawing speeds? I found the following links:
http://www.codeproject.com/vcpp/gdiplus/...sspeed.asp
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/ms...70407.aspx

Of course, these may be outdated or irrelevant. I'm also not a programmer so I don't know how hard they would be to implement.

Also, are there any dll's in GB-PVR that I could remove if I'm not using certain functions? I've stripped the plugins folder clean.

[nitrogen_widget]

Hello,

I am currently testing tiny XP Vista look edition on an old slot A 750mhz Athlon with 512mb ram & a Gforce2 mx 400 32mb graphics card.
Running at 720x480 resolution & using the purevideo decoder.
This is a playback only machine.

I can watch DVD's at a steady %40 cpu usage & I'm able to watch most SD xvid files at around %20 cpu.
I'm using Overlay.
Afraid to try VMR just yet.

I do get some stuttering when the on-screen display pops up.
I expect it to be worse with VMR.

Enabling ffdshow post processing does give a better xvid picture & only raises cpu slightly.

With DVD's though cpu is around %85 to %90. So off goes FFDSHOW post processing.


Is there a way to just use ffdshow post processing on XVID content?

My experience with installs like that (XP Lite) is that functionality is reduced so much that many apps don't run. Then you spend a lot of time figuring out what it is that you're missing. I know that author claims that everything else will run except MS Office, but I have a hard time believing that. I'm open to anything though; perhaps you should test it out for us