[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Feb 12 19:26:52 UTC 2008


On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:

>
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:
>>>  Do you
>> think that if I were to get a board based on the 965 or G33 that as
>> the
>> driver matured and more of the MPEG2/H.264 acceleration would be  
>> taken
>> away
>> from the CPU and the CPU would actually have spare cycles in the
>> future?
>
> I do think that, yes. This is what i said in my previous post.
>
> Do I want to be held accountable for my posts? No.
>
> But there is already a git branch of the intel driver with preliminary
> hardware acceleration.

Hmm.  How good is it?  My impression of Intel chipsets is that they  
were intended for business use, and didn't have much in the way of  
acceleration.  Is that an outdated assumption?



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