[Ruud]

Hey Keegan,

I always watch recorded TV via a file share ('my movies', because watching them via the TV section gives me sometimes no sound), so the server does not stream. But processing the .ts (or .mpg) file at a resolution of 1360x768 takes some CPU. The video card that I have in my system (Sparkle 6200) is the fastest pci card available (at least that I could find) that supports (hardware) DX9 and off-loads the CPU. Without this video card, Mediaportal would make the CPU 'grind' even not playing any content ;-).
Bare in mind that when you use comskip on the TV server, that this also takes appr. 30% CPU power (with a low priority and thus not interfering with the recordings).

kind regards,
Ruud