[mythtv] Box Processor Limits

[Chuck Wolber]

> I was reading the Myth site and was slightly confused by the figures. On
> the site it says that high quality takes 50-60% of an Athlon 1800+. The
> TiVo only has a twenty-something megahertz processor in it and it can
> encode etc without problems. Which process is taking all the CPU time?
> Is it the encoding scheme used? I decided to build a myth box, and we
> are trying to figure out if the Duron 650 I have will work or if I
> should use the Athlon 1100 currently in my extra box. Is the problem
> when encoding and decoding at the same time?

Megahertz is not a measure of the power of a processor, by any stretch of
the imagination. This is a myth that is largely perpetuated by Intel. The
TiVo uses a motorola processor *AND* they have an MPEG2 encoder built into
the motherboard. The architecture is simply much more efficient.

-Chuck


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