<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Trey Boudreau</b> <<a href="mailto:trey@treysoft.com">trey@treysoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:33:55PM -0500, Tom Dombrosky wrote:<br>> On 2/28/06, Trey Boudreau <<a href="mailto:trey@treysoft.com">trey@treysoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:24:04PM -0500, Mike Frisch wrote:
<br>> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:51:21AM -0800, Todd Ignasiak wrote:<br>> > > > The dual core intel processor has plenty of horsepower for HD<br>> > > > MPEG2 decoding.<br>> > >
<br>> > > Can the Intel 950 video chipset handle it though?<br>> > ><br>> > According to the Intel specs, yes:<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/">
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/</a><br>> ><br>> > Intel has had notoriously bad drivers for their graphics chipsets in the<br>> > Windows world. Let's hope Apple wrote their own :-)<br>>
<br>> Don't the intel drivers not work with video over 1440 in linux? I think I<br>> remember seeing that somewhere on this mailing list.<br>><br>It seems like older versions of the chipset might not handle 1080i
<br>video. The datasheet seems to indicate that the 950 does. I couldn't<br>find the programming manual for it on the Intel site, so I can't say for<br>sure.</blockquote><div><br><br>Yeah, they clearly claim 1080i/p support on that web page. It'll be interesting to see how it really performs.
<br><br>Two other video questions I have:<br><br>- What is "High Definition Content Decode - up to two stream support" from their datasheet?? I assume their not talking about MPEG decoders, like in the Unichrome.. Given the otherwise weak MPEG2 offload capabilities (MC support, but no iDCT). Is this anything real, or just marketing-speak for something less exciting?
<br><br>- Is the 950 'Core Video' capable, to support all the MacOS GUI effects, and interesting video processing capabiltiies? I suspect 'yes', given the specs about Dx9 support and Pixel Shaders.<br><br></div><br></div>