On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Udo Richter udo_richter@gmx.de wrote:
I was a little bit surprised to see in the specifications that it needs a CPU minimum P4 2 Ghz.
Thats probably because you need at least an 2GHz P4 to boot windows and a virus scanner nowadays. The CPU and RAM demands should be not much higher than with an old SD FF card, as long as you only handle the encoded video stream like VDR does. The highest 'demand' is probably having an PCI Express socket already. (Not that PCI bandwidth wouldn't be enough either, but PCIE probably seemed more future proof and simpler.)
I seriously doubt virus scanners have anything to do with anything. That seems more trying to take a cheap jab at Windows then anything else.
Anyways, the requirements may be what they are because of what is actually offloaded to the decoder.