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

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, February 13, 2008 6:22 am, Brian Phillips wrote:
> Nicolas Will wrote:
>> The Intel chpsets (965 and up) have pretty decent capabilities for
>> what we want to do with them.
>>
>> They have all the good parts for MPEG2/H.264 acceleration.
>>
>> Now 2 things are happening these days. X is changing its
>> infrastructure for video acceleration.
>>
>> Intel has released stuff that was only in the hands of a few people:
>> the full specs. So expect a lot more people to be able to code on the
>> Intel driver from now on.
>
> So, if I were a gambling man, and wanted to bet the farm on Intel hardware
> becoming "fully unlocked" ie nvidia purevideo...for linux, I would go with
> an intel chipset instead of an nvidia?
>
> I haven't followed or heard of the intel full specs being released.  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?
> Interesting...
>

Keith Packard announced that Intel was releasing its programmers reference
manual for the newer chips during his talk at Linux.conf.au two weeks ago..

Steve

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