Hi, In addition to the CPU requirements, I believe there are also patent issues that come into play doing it with software. As for the ASI cards, audioscience takes care of any licensing issues (I admit, I am not sure who holds the patent, but I recall reading somewhere that this type of time scaling is still under patent protection).
> > On Monday 29 June 2015 07:29:49 am Hoggins! wrote: > > Bumping on this subject : would such a feature be feasible with > > Rivendell software, or is it something that is absolutely bound to > > hardware because the involved processing would be to heavy to be > > guaranteed on a "normal" playout PC ? > > It could be done in software, but you'd need one heck of a > CPU to keep up with all the real time demands such a > scenario would place on it. > As such, it's far better to hand that off to a dedicated processor. > It's just one reason for the Audio Science cards. > > -- > Cowboy > > http://cowboy.cwf1.com > > Things are more like they used to be than they are now. > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
