[geeks] New small Intel Board

[Mark]

On 6 Jun 2008, at 00:02, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> Intel video isn't to bad for
>> media, apparently. The Mac mini certainly copes okay.
>
> I would guess that how well this does with HD depends on having a
> hardware HD compressor and also how well the 945 does at  
> accelerating HD
> MPEG2 or H264.

According to the Docs the GMA950 on that chipset supports MPEG-2 but  
no AVC(H.264), so I guess that's not *so* bad. It'd certainly be  
sufficient for a DVR/Movies box. I have no issues transcoding to  
MPEG-2 as I have a Mac Pro sat here with 4-cores and plenty of muscle  
so it'll not take long :)

For the rare occasions I *have* to use H.264 video then I guess I  
could just use the Mac Pro and lump it :)


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