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<blockquote data-quote="gemx" data-source="post: 241584" data-attributes="member: 26324">I would suggest buying a graphics card which supports MPEG4 / H.264 in hardware and passively cooled.e.g. GForce 8500 GT (use it myself)It also has a HDCP compatible DVI out.My CPU is an old AMD Athlon X64 3500+ and while playing H.264 content my cpu usage is at about 18 % including MediaPortal and TvServer running on the same machine.The above mentioned graphics card only costs about 70 € here in Germany so you won't need a fast cpu.Even mine, quite outdated cpu is more than enough.I would suggest keeping an eye on lower power consumption for the cpu by a hardware acc. graphics card and you are done.Perhaps it's better in this case to spend more money on a nice HTPC case <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="gemx, post: 241584, member: 26324"] I would suggest buying a graphics card which supports MPEG4 / H.264 in hardware and passively cooled. e.g. GForce 8500 GT (use it myself) It also has a HDCP compatible DVI out. My CPU is an old AMD Athlon X64 3500+ and while playing H.264 content my cpu usage is at about 18 % including MediaPortal and TvServer running on the same machine. The above mentioned graphics card only costs about 70 € here in Germany so you won't need a fast cpu. Even mine, quite outdated cpu is more than enough. I would suggest keeping an eye on lower power consumption for the cpu by a hardware acc. graphics card and you are done. Perhaps it's better in this case to spend more money on a nice HTPC case ;) [/QUOTE]

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