[mythtv-users] Sandy Bridge / Intel HD 3000 support?

Tom Hill tom at ninjabadger.net
Thu Feb 24 13:27:39 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 08:08 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> But that's the thing.  Any desktop i3/5/7 will have plenty of power
> to 
> handle any content MythTV might come across with software decoding.  
> Hardware offloading is nice, but unnecessary when you have the CPU
> power 
> to back it up, which has always been the recommended mode of
> operation 
> for MythTV, even for machines capable of VDPAU.

Recording from simultaneous HD streams whilst playing another?

The point is that video playback can be accelerated cheaply, and that
frees the CPU up to concentrate on other tasks.

Tom



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