[vdr] Re: vdr without full-featured DVB-Card

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Don, 2003-04-03 um 00.41 schrieb Christian Bodenstedt:

> 
> Well, for the diskless client I'm planning to build an hardware-decoder
> would be the better solution: less CPU -> less heat -> less noise.

I also have been of that opinion, but hardware limits to much (no new
codecs, buggy firmware). That's why I'm going for CPU with
power-management-based soft-decoding, now

> I haven't tried it yet but i think my old K6-2 with 400Mhz supported by a
> modern graphics-adapter should be able to play an MPEG-2 steam. But I
> think MPEG-4 would be too much.
> 

Vice versa. The low bandwith of DivX is no problem, but DVD is.

My 300 MHz PII Notebook plays DivX very well with MPlayer, while DVD can
get block artefacts.

Rene



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