On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Steve Adeff wrote:
On Monday 12 December 2005 19:41, Michael T. Dean wrote:
Todd Ignasiak wrote:
In the U.S., HDTV is broadcast as MPEG2. The articles I have read
about HDTV in Europe have said MPEG4 (probably H.264 / MPEG4.10 /
AVC)
will be used. H.264 takes much more CPU horsepower to decode. A
3GHz P4 may not ave the horsepower to decode it.
An AMD Athlon X2 4800+ won't decode 1080i60 H.264. :)
Mike
WOW! thats serious decoding requirements. So basically H.264 is
going to
require a dedicated DSP?
It will probably require some hand tuned vector code (SSE3, Altivec,
etc) to make it work. Or to have your graphics card do it for you.
The graphics card solution is probably going to be slow to come to
linux. Hand tuned code is more likely, but takes some real
professionals to implement. For what its worth, my old 1.4 Ghz Mac
G4 does a decent job of smaller screen sizes because of the work
Apple did hand coding for the Altivec unit.
For now, I probably wouldn't recommend it for Linux, especially with
HDs being so cheap (H.264 is basically trading processor for space/
bandwidth).
Keith C
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