On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Nicolas Huillard nicolas@huillard.net wrote:
It's still good news to know that open-source software allowing current fanless integrated motherboards to decode HDTV at ~10% CPU is on its way...
Going from 87% of 2 cores, to ~10% of an entry level CPU is good, specially when the load is taken care of by existing chips.
Yes, I agree. Just pointing out that you certainly do not need a quad core, that's all. Also, the price of the cpu is the same whether you're using 87% or 10% of it. ;) The point is you can already have cheap HDTV without using the new Nvidia api.
I'd like to have full-HDTV on a single x86 mini-ITX board. I'm now seeing this will happen soon enough, and I'll wait until then before I spend money on new hardware.
Yes it's nice! My goal is diskless, fanless, low power consumption dedicated HDTV box. Very small, very low cost!