[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?

[Brian Phillips]

Nicolas Will wrote:
> The Intel chpsets (965 and up) have pretty decent capabilities for
> what we want to do with them. 
> 
> They have all the good parts for MPEG2/H.264 acceleration.
> 
> Now 2 things are happening these days. X is changing its
> infrastructure for video acceleration. 
> 
> Intel has released stuff that was only in the hands of a few people:
> the full specs. So expect a lot more people to be able to code on the
> Intel driver from now on.  

So, if I were a gambling man, and wanted to bet the farm on Intel hardware
becoming "fully unlocked" ie nvidia purevideo...for linux, I would go with
an intel chipset instead of an nvidia?

I haven't followed or heard of the intel full specs being released.  Do you
think that if I were to get a board based on the 965 or G33 that as the
driver matured and more of the MPEG2/H.264 acceleration would be taken away
from the CPU and the CPU would actually have spare cycles in the future?
Interesting...  

You don't normally think of your CPU aging and becoming less burdened, but
that's exactly what I want.  I don't want to buy a new system with a new CPU
and then in 2 years have to change it all out because new HD formats are
pushing it too hard.

Brian