Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

John Patrick Poet john at BlueSkyTours.com
Tue Apr 12 15:57:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, David George wrote:

> On 4/6/2005 3:47 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote:
>
> >I'm surprised you can play HDTV with a 1Ghz.  I thought you need a lot
> >more power than that for HDTV... even when offloading some to the GPU.
> >
> >
> We'll see.  Ivor Hewitt has posted some results of playing HDTV with the
> Via C3 using the CN400 chipset.  He mentioned 85% CPU usage when playing
> a 1920x1080i file.  I'm sorry the message escapes me right now, or I
> would include a link.
>
> >Looks like a great project.  I'll certainly be keeping an eye on it.
> >
> >
> Thanks, I'll keep everyone posted.
>
> --
> David
>
> HDTV frontend I'm working on (new picture of back, mythmon source)
>   http://mythhd.info


I assume you saw this:


VIA Releases Linux Driver Source Packages:

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=24086


John


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