MVP -vs- DualView

[Dave72]

Ive held off getting a MediaMVP so far (the only store in town will order one, for a decent price, but no returns and they cant tell me rev#).

Did some experimenting around with the Dualview (fx5600), and operationally at least, its very good. The only problem is the cpu hit on live/rec mpegs. I cant seem to get it below about 30%. I certainly cant play a good 3d game on the pc while the gbpvr is running.. the video pretty much stops from lack of cpu cycles.

Can I confirm, with some MVP users, that running GBPVR thru the MVP is nearly transparent to the cpu ? Can you game while watching live/rec video ?

FWIW, Ill be using the htpc for live (Nexus looped into a pvr150), recorded (mpegs), photos, mp3s, and various plugins (weather, cams, netradio, etc).

System is a 2.1Ghz with 768 DDR, fx5600.

Thanks.

[nia]

Your machine will hardly raise an eyebrow playing through the MVP. You'll be hard pressed to se much action on the CPU usage graph in the task manager, and playback is not sensitive to how you abuse the PC while others are whatching in another room.

I have a weather server in a VM Ware instance on the machine that at a point in time were taking the CPU to 100% for 10-12 seconds every minute. I had no issues with the MVP on that account when playing back. The menus however respond more sluggisly.

Go ahead and get one - it's excellent, easy and totally quiet

/Niels

[Spartan]

The only time I see the CPU spike is when transcoding divx or when comskip is running. Other than that, the system is nearly idle. Also, I only run via the MVP.

[LilY0da]

Can I confirm, with some MVP users, that running GBPVR thru the MVP is nearly transparent to the cpu ? Can you game while watching live/rec video ?

No you can't. I tried on a Athlon XP 3000 with 1Gb of Ram and it's not possible, unless you manually increase the priority of the GBPVR MVP server process.

The interface on the MVP takes forever to display or update, when it waits too long, the MVP restarts, and if you had already started playing a file before firing up the game, the MPEG2 stream randomly stops, because it doesn't have enough CPU cycles available, as it has to share the CPU with your running game

If you don't forget to set the priority to "above normal" for the MVP process, then yeah, it's doable, but even doing this, I still noticed some occasional glitches in the recorded MPEG2 file...