[mythtv-users] Question on recording sizes and DVD burning

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:42 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 02:34:28PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
.....
>> Considering video encoding is a floating point intensive process,
>> that CPU should really only be considered quad-core.
>
>     No. The difference is "threading".

Actually, the difference is that (depending on the specific AMD cpu),
the floating point unit is "shared".  Whether this matters depends
on the particular cpu, whether the instructions are 128 or 256 bit,
and other factors for which you have to delve deep into the
microarchitecture of the specific choice.