On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:18:23 -0800, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:16:34AM -0600, Loren H. Burlingame wrote: > > I always thought the backend was supposed to be the one with the > > horsepower.....I mean, I run a P2 500Mhz machine as a frontend right > > now with no problem....and you can pick those up for maybe $30. > > It's the other way around, at least if you're doing HDTV capture or hardware > MPEG-2 compression of non-HD video. Capture imposes a minimal load on the > processor when the encoding is done by the broadcaster or the capture card, > but playback (unless you're using the decoder on a PVR-350) requires > considerably more power. This is especially true of HD video...some sample > clips I downloaded play OK on my Athlon XP 2400 frontend/backend if XvMC is > enabled (other than the usual gotchas pertaining to XvMC), but 1080i skips > and jumps if XvMC is disabled. >
decoding takes significantly less processor power than encoding. I still think that the mini imac is overkill and you are wasting your money if it is your intention to use it soley as a frontend. -- Loren H. Burlingame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)
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