MythTV hw question

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Nov 10 11:16:00 EST 2006


"Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>     Dave Johnson <dave-gnhlug at davej.org> writes:
>    
>     > That's probably fine for a backend, but may be a bit slow for decoding
>     > for the frontend.  I've noticed cpu power requirements for playing
>     > are perportional to the bitrate of the MPEG2 so you can always crank
>     > down the bitrate setting when recording to find what it can handle.
>     But wouldn't the 350 be able to handle that decoding for me?  That's
>     why I was thinking of getting that card, it can do both.
>
>   Correct.  Either that or one of the Via EPIA boards can use hardware
> decoding.

Are the Via EPIA boards powerful enough to decode 720p and 1080i,
deinterlace (as necessary) and scale to output a 1080p signal?  If so,
what EPIA board?  If not....  What do you recommend instead?

-derek
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