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[ale] OT: hackable device
- Subject: [ale] OT: hackable device
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:01:01 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAHc5b7_vFYSXsnfN5zdY6E4FvhSvuz7cKFc4_iB=TPFun3kGTw@mail.gmail.com> (Matthew's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:15:09 -0400")
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Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> writes:
> Its all about the video card.
>
> On 6/12/12, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm still amazed how these small devices can play 1080p video when my
>> old desktop P4 2.4 MHz is choking on even smaller resolutions :)
Video Card and HD Offload into a GPU. Basically, they are doing HD
decode/processing in hardware. You could do HD with a P4 if you had a
video card with HD offload, like a recent NVidia with VDPAU support.
-derek
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