Interesting, I might look into this, sounds similar to nvidias technology which dumps all encoding and decoding on the GPu, except this is dedicated which is good news.
THEfog On 07/05/2010 12:26 AM, "Nin-lil-izi" <[email protected]> wrote: AFAIK, The .MKV's require a lot more CPU power to decode video than some of the older less effective codecs. Just real GPU's have functionality to accelerate the decoding of certain formats within their drivers that essentially a separate pipeline to the 3D rendering pipelines. a high bitrate .MKV can peg a core on my high end Phenom system if I disable the Video acceleration part of its GPU's One solution would be to add a dedicated video decoder board into your system. Many laptops over the last few years have shipped with empty/ spare internal miniPCI-E ports on their motherboards. You can pick up suitable boards on ebay for as little as £15, and the trickiest part of their installation is figuring how to get into the laptop. So installation should not be too tricky for anybody with a bit of patience and manual dexterity. IMHO, Tasked with just outputting the raw video, and most of the CPU cycles needed for decoding offloaded to the decoder. Even a netbook should manage HD content without too much difficulty On May 6, 5:59 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > @tribaljet > Yeah I read about fi... > On 06/05/2010 1:48 PM, "tribaljet" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, and if I'm not mis... -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
