On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Udo Richter <udo_richter@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I was a little bit surprised to see in the specifications that it needs a CPU minimum P4 2 Ghz. > > Thats probably because you need at least an 2GHz P4 to boot windows and > a virus scanner nowadays. The CPU and RAM demands should be not much > higher than with an old SD FF card, as long as you only handle the > encoded video stream like VDR does. The highest 'demand' is probably > having an PCI Express socket already. (Not that PCI bandwidth wouldn't > be enough either, but PCIE probably seemed more future proof and simpler.) I seriously doubt virus scanners have anything to do with anything. That seems more trying to take a cheap jab at Windows then anything else. Anyways, the requirements may be what they are because of what is actually offloaded to the decoder. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
