<div>On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:43 PM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Chris Ribe wrote:<br>
> After a year of frustration with my Dish DVR, I am plotting a return to<br>
> MythTV. I am in the process of speccing out a front end, and I am wondering<br>
> how much processor I need to handle hulu desktop and youtube HD. It has<br>
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</div> Flash is 100% software decoding. So you will need to throw a fast single<br>
core at it. An Atom is not going to be up to the task. Otherwise respectable<br>
current desktop systems might not even be good enough. Nevermind an Atom.<br>
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This is probably why Adobe has announced that they will be adding HW<br>
acceleration to Flash.<br>
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> widely reported that an Atom system will not be up to the task, but will a<br>
> Celeron 430 (1.8Ghz, I have one of these sitting around) be up to the task?<br>
> If not, what processor should I go with, given that I already have<br>
> processorless LGA 775 and LGA 1366 ready to be put to the task?<br>
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> --<br>
> Chris Rib<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Flash 10.1 will support nVidia vdpau API and is due for release in Nov I believe...an Atom/Ion FE then should be perfect.<div><br></div><div>Andrew </div></div>
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