Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

David George david at thegeorges.us
Wed Apr 6 20:19:17 UTC 2005


On 4/6/2005 3:47 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote:

>I'm surprised you can play HDTV with a 1Ghz.  I thought you need a lot
>more power than that for HDTV... even when offloading some to the GPU.
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We'll see.  Ivor Hewitt has posted some results of playing HDTV with the 
Via C3 using the CN400 chipset.  He mentioned 85% CPU usage when playing 
a 1920x1080i file.  I'm sorry the message escapes me right now, or I 
would include a link.

>Looks like a great project.  I'll certainly be keeping an eye on it.
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Thanks, I'll keep everyone posted.

-- 
David

HDTV frontend I'm working on (new picture of back, mythmon source)
  http://mythhd.info



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