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Tortise wrote:
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<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 <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 <a
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<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>
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<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>
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