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

kawayanan kawayanan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 19:58:59 UTC 2008


John Massengale wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 11:41 AM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net 
> <mailto:nico at youplala.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:26 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
>     >
>     > On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:
>     >
>     > >
>     > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:
>     > >>>  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?
>     > >
>     > > I do think that, yes. This is what i said in my previous post.
>     > >
>     > > Do I want to be held accountable for my posts? No.
>     > >
>     > > But there is already a git branch of the intel driver with
>     > preliminary
>     > > hardware acceleration.
>     >
>     > Hmm.  How good is it?  My impression of Intel chipsets is that they
>     > were intended for business use, and didn't have much in the way of
>     > acceleration.  Is that an outdated assumption?
>
>     If you are playing 3D shooters, they are not comparable to high-end
>     nVIDIA chips.
>
>     For our use in MythTV, they are way more than enough.
>
>     My mother-in-low is running a full 3D Compiz desktop on an old
>     Intel 830
>     GPU without any slow-down.
>
>     GMA900, 950, 300 and 3100 were great improvements.
>
>     Nico
>
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>
> What is the name/model number of this upcoming hardware from Hauppauge 
> that will encode directly to h.264?
>
> John
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Here is the press release, but be warned, its a pdf.  
http://www.hauppauge.com/PDFs/Hauppauge_HD_recorder.pdf

It looks pretty nice to me, I just wish it was cheaper.  :(


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