<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23/08/2008, at 10:01 AM, Nick & Ann Read wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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 bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Tortise wrote:<blockquote id="mid_019101c9049e_f6cd18b0_fb1e770a_dp2000xp" cite="mid:019101c9049e$f6cd18b0$fb1e770a@dp2000xp" type="cite"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I picked up a Strong SRT 5410 Freeview HD STB sheet yesterday, its CPU is noted to be</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">STi7101 32 bit Super Scalar RISC CPU - 400 Dhrystone 2.1<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:MIPS@266Mhz">MIPS@266Mhz</a></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">64M Flash ROM, 1024 M DDR DRAM.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I note it is detailed at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=367081">http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=367081</a></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I wonder if such a device(s) on a PCI card could do the job for Myth?</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Is this a line worth considering?</font></div><div>The Tortise</div></blockquote><font color="#0000ff">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.</font><br><br></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>But there is also a Google Summer of Code project to implement speed ups using the GPU's maths processor which will help</div><div><br></div><div>Problem is all of these things take time and are months or more away.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</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>