On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:03 -0400, Mario Limonciello wrote: > My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine > play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better > question is - which takes more power > > Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 > or > Outputing at 720p or 1080i
The MPEG2 decoding is what eats up most of the CPU, and you still have to decode it in order to rescale it, so you'd actually use more CPU power watching it rescaled than watching it as its native resolution. -- Joshua M. Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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