[mythtvnz] CPU required for Freeview HD

[Steven Ellis]

On 23/08/2008, at 10:01 AM, Nick & Ann Read wrote:

> Tortise wrote:
>>
>> I picked up a Strong SRT 5410 Freeview HD STB sheet yesterday, its  
>> CPU is noted to be
>> STi7101 32 bit Super Scalar RISC CPU - 400 Dhrystone 2.1 MIPS at 266Mhz
>> 64M Flash ROM, 1024 M DDR DRAM.
>> I note it is detailed at http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=367081
>> Surely food for thought, this sounds to me like typical router CPU  
>> performance levels, presumably there are decoding chips also  
>> included which do the grunt, presumably somewhat like the PVR-350  
>> does.
>> I wonder if such a device(s) on a PCI card could do the job for Myth?
>> Is this a line worth considering?
>> The Tortise
> Nvidia GPUs (& and think ATI) do this for windows users (and Linux  
> users for MPEG2). Unfortunately they have not released linux drivers  
> for the 'PureVideo' functionality which would allow them to be used  
> for H.264 decoding on linux/mythtv.
>

But there is also a Google Summer of Code project to implement speed  
ups using the GPU's maths processor which will help

Problem is all of these things take time and are months or more away.

Steve

Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited
email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz

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