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<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 67178" data-attributes="member: 14004">Stick with the Core Duo platform only because other software packages will allow for multi-threading. Most people have several other pieces of software on their HTPC's - MP just isnt at the point yet where it can be the only program running on a machine to acheve everyones goals.Considering that recording with an analog hardware capture card utilizes about 5% cpu usage, and that alone is from driver overhead and I/O utilization, I would say that requring multi-threading for capturing TV is not required at all. You can capture TV with an analog hardware capture card on a Pentium III if you really wanted to. :lol:I can understand your point about xvid encodng TV shows, but in reality, the trick here isn't more power - it's stratgic use of time. have the HPTC re-encode content at night when you're asleep or when the system is not in use. I have my HTPC schduled to wake up every monday at midnight and perform disk utilities (scandisk, defrag, disk cleanup) and then MP will encode all my recorded shows to xvid and delete the originals. When done, the system will turn itself off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 67178, member: 14004"] Stick with the Core Duo platform only because other software packages will allow for multi-threading. Most people have several other pieces of software on their HTPC's - MP just isnt at the point yet where it can be the only program running on a machine to acheve everyones goals. Considering that recording with an analog hardware capture card utilizes about 5% cpu usage, and that alone is from driver overhead and I/O utilization, I would say that requring multi-threading for capturing TV is not required at all. You can capture TV with an analog hardware capture card on a Pentium III if you really wanted to. :lol: I can understand your point about xvid encodng TV shows, but in reality, the trick here isn't more power - it's stratgic use of time. have the HPTC re-encode content at night when you're asleep or when the system is not in use. I have my HTPC schduled to wake up every monday at midnight and perform disk utilities (scandisk, defrag, disk cleanup) and then MP will encode all my recorded shows to xvid and delete the originals. When done, the system will turn itself off. [/QUOTE]

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