what about post-processing, scaling quality ? is it good ? does only easiest bob deinterlace method support ?
what about support the different h264 profiles - PAFF + spatial direct mode, MBAFF (bottleneck of ffmpeg), CABAC, CAVLC does eHD support those profiles well ? which h264 level does support eHD ?
Goga
may be you know - does Pentium 4 3 GHz will be enough ?
Even 300MHz are enough. The CPU load is not a load that depends on CPU speed. It depends mainly on the current state of the driver which transfers the video data from the CPU over PCI without using bursts. Autonomous DMA should be possible, but is not yet finished.