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Decoding H.264 Blu-Ray titles shouldn't be a $ problem soon
As we have seen from the Anandtech article 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo is enough to decode H.264 without ANY help from the video subsystem.
The next round of price breaks will make that a $183 processor.
- Mark
Core 2 Duo E6400 o/c 3.2GHz - Asus P5B Deluxe - 2048MB Corsair Twinx 6400C4 - ATI AIW X1900 - Seagate 7200.10 SATA 320GB primary - Western Digital SE16 SATA 320GB secondary - Samsung SATA Lightscribe DVD/CDRW- Midiland 4100 Speakers - Presonus Firepod - Dell FP2001 20" LCD - Windows XP Home
Did they test any slower CPUs? I seem to remember the "heart" of some HD-DVD player is simply P4...
Together with CoreAVC the requirements shouldn't be that high, I guess...
Only the E6700 could decode the toughest scene in X3 (bitrate-wise) without aid from the video card and without hitting 100% max cpu usage at any time.
- Mark
Core 2 Duo E6400 o/c 3.2GHz - Asus P5B Deluxe - 2048MB Corsair Twinx 6400C4 - ATI AIW X1900 - Seagate 7200.10 SATA 320GB primary - Western Digital SE16 SATA 320GB secondary - Samsung SATA Lightscribe DVD/CDRW- Midiland 4100 Speakers - Presonus Firepod - Dell FP2001 20" LCD - Windows XP Home
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