Under GNU/Linux using the Nvidia drivers, if you select "Sync To Blank" in the nvidia-settings GUI, you'll use a large percentage of one core for playing the video and much of the other for eliminating tearing.
Dammit! I guess I picked the wrong day to downgrade from Debian unstable to Etch.
Now I'll have to wait for 2 years to use 0.20 if it doesn't make it into Etch.
If you mean HD from a cable box, I can't say. However, you can pick up a pcHDTV-3000 card (linux drivers only) that is designed for broadcast HDTV. I'm not sure you could build the whole box for $500, though, unless you already have some parts. My configuration is this, with current prices listed:
pcHDTV-3000 card $170 (newer pcHDTV-5500 is $130) at www.pchdtv.com db-2 indoor/outdoor UHF antenna $49 at www.antennasdirect.com AMD X2 3800+ processor $109 at newegg.com (dual core is needed if accelerated mpeg playback does not work well)
Throw in a cheap nvidia video card with component out ($50), motherboard ($100), a big hardrive ($100), and case with power supply ($50), and you are looking at $600 without a monitor.
If you are ready to throw your computer out the window, I recommend trying the slightly less destructive
# rm -rf /
which can be just as satisfying. Sometimes you just need to start fresh, and ext3 can get you there in seconds.
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Under GNU/Linux using the Nvidia drivers, if you select "Sync To Blank" in the nvidia-settings GUI, you'll use a large percentage of one core for playing the video and much of the other for eliminating tearing.
Dammit! I guess I picked the wrong day to downgrade from Debian unstable to Etch. Now I'll have to wait for 2 years to use 0.20 if it doesn't make it into Etch.
If you mean HD from a cable box, I can't say. However, you can pick up a pcHDTV-3000 card (linux drivers only) that is designed for broadcast HDTV. I'm not sure you could build the whole box for $500, though, unless you already have some parts. My configuration is this, with current prices listed:
pcHDTV-3000 card $170 (newer pcHDTV-5500 is $130) at www.pchdtv.com
db-2 indoor/outdoor UHF antenna $49 at www.antennasdirect.com
AMD X2 3800+ processor $109 at newegg.com (dual core is needed if accelerated mpeg playback does not work well)
Throw in a cheap nvidia video card with component out ($50), motherboard ($100), a big hardrive ($100), and case with power supply ($50), and you are looking at $600 without a monitor.
If you are ready to throw your computer out the window, I recommend trying the slightly less destructive # rm -rf / which can be just as satisfying. Sometimes you just need to start fresh, and ext3 can get you there in seconds.
No, only floating objects displace an amount of water equal to their weights.
The principle is simply that the submerged volume is equal to the volume of displaced water.
Music is capable of touching the soul like no other art.
Plus such precision makes absolutely no sense given that Euclidean geometry is only an approximation of the real world (spacetime is curved).