[mythtv-users] Front end CPU recommendations?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 6, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Johnny Russ wrote:

> H264 benefits a great deal from multicore decoding. Parallelization  
> is designed into the codec. I don't know much about the details but  
> I believe the ability to do multicore decoding depends on the file  
> being encoded with "slices". I would assume that most stuff will be  
> encoded such that it can be decoded on multicore systems, since they  
> are the standard these days. If you are talking about a combined FE/ 
> BE system then there are many benefits to have multiple cores. You  
> can have mysql,commflag, or whatever running on one core, and have  
> another core completely dedicated to your playback.

Note that the only comsumer-level h.264 capture device does not use  
slices. (The Hauppauge HD-PVR)