Koolu.com

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 14 14:30:20 EST 2007


Quoting Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org>:

>> From Koolu's Technical Director:
>
>> 720p and 1080i will make the box melt. As it stands, it is 480p, also
>> known as DVD resolution (ie: not HDTV). That takes the processor
>> 70-90%, I don't think we can go higher resolution than that. All the
>> decoding was done on the front end of the unit (ie: on the Koolu box
>> and not on the server).
>>
>
> It was a reasonable question, and I will try to have that clarified on
> the web site so people will know.
>
> Thanks for bringing it up.

Okay..  So not what I'm looking for, yet.     Too bad.    A note to the
technicals there:  If you could install an NVIDIA graphics device with
XvMC <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC> then you might be able
to actually get HD decoding on your device.   It would be REALLY COOL
to have an HDTV-capable device Myth Frontend!

Ah well, back to more research to find my HD MythFrontend hardware.

> md

-derek

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