Stephen Rowles wrote: > I was thinking about one of the new Atom 330 (dual core) motherboards as > these are supposed to be able to handle 720p and some 1080p content with > the latest playback drivers, but the graphics card is a very old GMA > 950, would you expect that sort of system to cope with Freevo 2?
I guess so. There are four choices: 1. You have a gxf card without 3D support. You are out, Freevo 2.0 will not work for you unless you code support for a new video out. 2. You have a gfx card that does not support hardware colorspace conversion and has no shader support in the GPU. That means we have to do the colorspace conversion in the CPU. If you have a dual core, that should work. One core will decode the video, the other one will do the colorspace conversion. I don't know how the Atom supports 1080p. Windows decoder use both cores for the task while ffmpeg's decoder only uses one in most cases. If 1080p works on Linux, I guess Freevo 2.0 will do, too. 3. You have a gfx card that supports shaders but has no hardware colorspace conversion. We can use the shader to do this. So the work will be done in the GPU if the CPU is not powerfull enough. 4. The gxf card supports hardware colorspace conversion: everything is perfect. > I would expect an atom system to be a very popular choice for a media > centre hardware, I think so, too. My test platform is a Core Duo 1.7GHz ULV laptop with an 945GM gxf chip. This platform falls under (2). The player uses one core to decode the video and the second one is used for the colorspace conversion. And there is still CPU power left. I wonder why the Atom boards use the GMA 950? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA The board from Intel uses this chip. Aren't there any better boards? Dischi -- Atheism: A non-prophet organization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
