<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
Anyone know if am Atom N270 1.6GHz has sufficient grunt to<br>
decode SD video, with yadif deinterlacing and scaling<br>
to 720p resolution? Or would that require some hardware<br>
assistance from the graphics card? Also any chance of<br>
a little spare CPU to also run the backend?<br>
<br>
Paul.<br></blockquote><div><br>Not sure if you'd get away with yadif deinterlacing, but otherwise it ought to work.<br>
<br>
That said, you're better off paying a little more for an nVidia Ion
based system - that is, Atom + GeForce 9400, basically. Using VDPAU
accelerated playback on Myth 0.22 works excellently, with playback
placing almost no load on the CPU.<br>
<br>
The Ion chipset also supports DDR2 800 (and potentially, though I
haven't yet seen a real motherboard which does it, DDR3 1333) which can
provide a noticable improvement over the DDR2 533 supported by the
Intel 945 chipset used with most Atoms.<br><br>
That said, unless you need the small footprint provided by an Atom
"nettop", I'd recommend buying a cheap AMD chip and motherboard + a
Geforce 9400 (or the new GT 220). An Atom has so little processing
power that it may actually take more energy to run than a more powerful
chip, because it takes longer to do anything.<br> <br>If you do go for an Atom, I would strongly suggest the dual core N330 to ensure that it's up to recording+playback+commercial flagging simultaneously.<br></div></div>