[mythtvnz] Minimum CPU for FreeviewHD

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/5/24 Aaron Whitehouse <lists at whitehouse.org.nz>:
> If I bought myself a Phenom triple-core, say:
> http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_12842.html
> would that handle it better?  Is the stream encoded in enough "slices"
> (or whatever) that an extra core would make a substantial difference?

No it won't.

At this stage, ffmpeg used by mythtv doesn't use more than one core
for any h264 decoding.
multi-threading decoding in ffmpeg is still in its infancy and isn't
in the core code. You need to get it from a different branch
(ffmpeg-mt)