<p>I am able to watch TV3, full resolution, using an intel Quad core extreme
6800 with each core running at 3GHz, but I am not using all the horsepower! (I
set the priority to realtime "sudo renice -10 <pid>" to ensure
it does not stutter)</p><p>Cheers Douglas.</p>
Quoting Graeme Woollett <g.woollett@irl.cri.nz>:<br />
<br />
> Barry Clearwater wrote:<br />
>> I'm fascinated by the discussion about cpu requirements, can someone<br
/>
>> briefly outline again the reasons that myth needs such huge amount
of<br />
>> processing for the h264 standard? Are STB's that powerful, or is it<br
/>
>> done with some proprietary decoder?<br />
>> Is our decoder not low-level enough?<br />
>><br />
>> Barry<br />
>><br />
> Nvidia have been very slow to provide any h264 support for Linux given<br
/>
> that they introduced purevideo in 2006. My hope is that AMD/ATI will<br />
> catch up and give NVidia the prod that they deserve. Therefore Myth<br />
> must do it in software.<br />
><br />
> It is highly likely that the set top boxes will use either DSP or FPGA<br
/>
> chips with IP cores to do the MPEG4 signal processing. So it is done in<br
/>
> hardware not software.<br />
><br />
> Is there _anyone_ on this list that is able to watch TV3 1080i with no<br
/>
> stuttering and using software de interlacing, if so what CPU do you
have?<br />
><br />
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