<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2011 06:40, mythtv <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@beadon.ca">mythtv@beadon.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'm sure there are others who have their backend on 24/7. Is anyone else<br>
(esp the devs) intrigued by the idea of replacing a 35W CPU (+ additional<br>
system power) with a 1W CPU with higher performance?<br>
<a href="http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/02/tegra-roadmap-revealed-next-chip-worlds-first-quadcore-mobile-processor/" target="_blank">http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/02/tegra-roadmap-revealed-next-chip-worlds-first-quadcore-mobile-processor/</a><br>
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Their are bound to be some complications, for instance:<br>
-how well Ka-el will handle multiple storage drives? Will storage perf<br>
suffer?<br>
-no std PCIe support so only USB tuners will be supported on this<br>
platform. Although there may mini PCIe offered on some platforms.<br>
-VDPAU drivers may not be released so a combined FE/BE is unlikely to<br>
work.<br>
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I was surprised that I couldn't find any discussion of the backend running<br>
on ARM but then again ARM CPUs have never had this kind of horsepower<br>
before.<br>
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I lack the skills to pull this off myself but if any devs want to pick<br>
this up, I'd gladly help where I can.<br>
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cheers,<br>
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<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>It was mentioned in <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/473573">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/473573</a><br><br>That there is no current access to the video decoders but maybe the Quadcore will be able to decode in software....<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Anthony <br></div></div><br>