<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 3/08/2008, at 7:57 PM, Robin Gilks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>...what would people recommended for a diskless highdef capable frontend?<br><br>That's about it as far as questions go - do the 6100 series nvidia<br>equipped motherboards (eg. a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2) have enough GPU grunt<br>to handle the DVB-T H264 and the latest SD de-interlacers or should I be<br>looking at a 8300 series integrated video solution (eg. Asus M3N-H/HDMI<br>Motherboard).<br><br>In either case, are there any small cases that won't break the bank (I'm<br>planning on an external 12v brick with a 200w auto style PSU for cool and<br>quiet!)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I was talking to Keith Packard last week at OSCON about the joy of trying to decode 1080i H.264 frames on Linux compared with Windows. Basically for the next 6-12 months we need a damn fast CPU.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone estimate the grunt required for full 1080i playback in AMD and Intel CPU form?</div><div><br></div><div>For a combined frontend/backend solution I'm personally considering a Tri or Quad cpu setup so that we have N-1 CPUs for the graphics decode and a spare CPU for any backend housekeeping tasks.</div><div><br></div><div>Next part is the capture device. My ideal would be the HVR2200 for DVB-T but that isn't ready yet. Also the HVR 3000/4000 units aren't mainstream either.</div><div><br></div><div>We definitely live in "interesting times".</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>