Harald Milz wrote:
Niko Mikkila nm@phnet.fi wrote:
Since european HDTV transmissions will be based on MPEG4 AVC, I wouldn't base my CPU choice on HDTV playback capabilities. H.264 decoding at 1920x1080 seems to require a very fast dual core processor or two single-core ones. So in any case
Good hint! From your perspective, is there anything on the horizon that is capable of doing this and save some energy? Would an Athlon64 X2 3800+ running with cool'n'quiet be a proper choice? This seems cheaper than a dual CPU mainboard...
Don't worry: by the time HDTV will be mainstream (i.e. with regular broadcasts, not experimental ones), the necessary cpu will just cost eurocents ;-) (of course my forecast is just based on my crystal ball, so I may be wrong, but it doesn't really matter, since vdr will be by then illegal :-( )
Bye