On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:16:34AM -0600, Loren H. Burlingame wrote: > I always thought the backend was supposed to be the one with the > horsepower.....I mean, I run a P2 500Mhz machine as a frontend right > now with no problem....and you can pick those up for maybe $30.
It's the other way around, at least if you're doing HDTV capture or hardware MPEG-2 compression of non-HD video. Capture imposes a minimal load on the processor when the encoding is done by the broadcaster or the capture card, but playback (unless you're using the decoder on a PVR-350) requires considerably more power. This is especially true of HD video...some sample clips I downloaded play OK on my Athlon XP 2400 frontend/backend if XvMC is enabled (other than the usual gotchas pertaining to XvMC), but 1080i skips and jumps if XvMC is disabled. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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