micah;453992 Wrote: > ... blu-ray movies ... Would an atom processor (e.g. msi wind=$300) cut > it? No way. Normally you'd look at the GPU power instead of the CPU. Since hardware acceleration is not always available under linux, you'll have to check carefully for the brand/type of graphics card to buy for a linux based mythtv box. Then again hardware acceleration will work with some limitations in terms of formats (mpeg2, mpeg4) and bandwidth.
In case you want to decode about any format in high-def, you'll need to use software decoders in the CPU. I think a Core 2 is ok for anything 720p and a big quad is necessary for 1080p @ very high bitrates as found on a blu ray movie. (A big quad won't do for a nice htpc, imho: power = heat = noise.) -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
