Koolu.com
Thomas Charron
twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 14:48:05 EST 2007
On 2/14/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> >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.
Yea, it's a 200 Mhz Sis system on a chip box. No way it's doing HD
without some sort of hardware assist.
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-- Thomas
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