I know there has been a lot of discussions here lately about HDTV decoding and processor speeds and such, however I get the feeling that the recommended 3GHz P4 spec is a little overkill.
Basically, I am asking for the slowest (and theroretically cheapest) processor that can decode all HD formats, and ideally have headroom left over for things like commercial flagging and deinterlacing if required. I could care less about P4 vs. Celeron vs. AMD64 as long as it gets the job done. For the sake of argument, assume that a Nvidia FX 5200 will be used with DVI output and no XvMC.
I cant say what the lowest is, but I can tell ya what I use, which from what I remember, was on the lower end of the spectrum for CPUs decoding HD.
AMD XP2100+ 768 MB RAM
I dont use XVMC, but I do use libmpeg2.
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