Koolu.com

[Jarod Wilson]

On Feb 14, 2007, at 15:18, Ben Scott wrote:

> 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 ... 480p ... takes the
>>>> processor 70-90% ...
>
>  Hmmm, according to http://www.koolu.com/, the box has mini-PCI slot,
> right?  You might be able to find a hardware MPEG decoder card in that
> form factor.  That would offload most of the decode work from the CPU.
>
>  If no such product exists, Koolu might be able to build their own,
> as an add-on product, if that's the direction they want to go.  The
> chips themselves are already available; it would just be a matter of
> designing the PCB and doing the integration.  Not cheap, but not
> infeasible.

Via's Unichrome Pro (graphics on their higher-end EPIA series)  
includes hardware mpeg2 decoding assistance for HDTV-sized frames...  
I seem to recall someone with an EPIA sporting a Via C3 and Unichrome  
Pro running ~30% busy playing back 1080i material...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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