Harald Milz wrote: > Niko Mikkila <nm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>Since european HDTV transmissions will be based on MPEG4 AVC, I wouldn't base >>my CPU choice on HDTV playback capabilities. H.264 decoding at 1920x1080 seems >>to require a very fast dual core processor or two single-core ones. So in any case > > > Good hint! From your perspective, is there anything on the horizon that is > capable of doing this and save some energy? Would an Athlon64 X2 3800+ > running with cool'n'quiet be a proper choice? This seems cheaper than a > dual CPU mainboard... Don't worry: by the time HDTV will be mainstream (i.e. with regular broadcasts, not experimental ones), the necessary cpu will just cost eurocents ;-) (of course my forecast is just based on my crystal ball, so I may be wrong, but it doesn't really matter, since vdr will be by then illegal :-( ) Bye -- - Yo tambi?n quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050726/3d7a751e/signature.pgp
