Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Benny Amorsen wrote: >>>>>>> "KS" == Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> KS> The whole HDTV thing is of no interest to me until there is a DVB >> KS> card that can actually replay HDTV in hardware. >> >> Why would it have to be the DVB card doing it? That seems to be the >> job of the graphics card and the CPU. > > Well, call me old-fashioned, but I believe that for normal > live tv viewing a DVB card should be able to do the job > entirely on its own. VDR just tells it which channel to tune > to and that's it. It's this "take some old PC, put in a DVB card > and have a digital video recorder" thing ;-). > Currently H.264 decoding in software is a large overhead in the short term (for high bit rate HD streams), but wouldn't be the same in the long run, considering the increase in the number of CPU cores. In the long run there wouldn't be many cards doing hardware decoding. Even if DVB HD FF card were there, would be a bit too expensive as well. Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
