How low can you go?

[CodeMonkey]

I finally plugged my pvr250 into the cable and tried to watch live tv via gbpvr on this 700 mhz box and watching it on the monitor.  Unwatchable.  Like a broken up slideshow.  I was watching in window, not full screen mode.

How low do you can figure you can go and still watch tv?

I've seen MCE running on 500 mhz boxes OK.

[sub]

GB-PVR isnt doing any of the decoding itself, so this pretty much depends on the MPEG2 decoder used. With the same bitrate file and the same MPEG2 decoder as MCE, it should be the same.

The slowest machine I've tried it on was a Via EPIA ME6000. Its 600mhz CPU is about the equiv of a a celeron 400mhz. Pretty slow. On this box, menus were sluggish but the video playback wasn't too bad when I used the PowerDVD codec and enabled DXVA (which the motherboards tv out supported).

The XCard and PVR350 decoders would have no problems in a slow machine.

[CodeMonkey]

I guess then, what gbpvr options should I set with a slow box and a pvr-250mce card?