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Very modern approaches even implement the entire decoding process in software on the host processor.
Very modern approaches even implement the entire decoding process in software on the host processor.

See also [[VDR Software Decoder Plugin]] for a further distinction of hardware and software decoding.


[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 19:48, 23 April 2006

A device (hard- and/or software) that decodes a MPEG2 Elementary Stream and prepares data for (e.g. audiovisual) presentation.

Since the decoding algorithms are usually quite complex (and thus implementation is error-prone) vendors are moving in modern STB and DVD player chipsets from fixed-function silicon to Firmware-driven designs which allow late hotfixes.

Very modern approaches even implement the entire decoding process in software on the host processor.

See also VDR Software Decoder Plugin for a further distinction of hardware and software decoding.