[MPlayer-users] Re: Minimal hw config for h264 720p ?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 2/2/07, Dave Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
> This may be a crazy question to ask regarding this thread,
> but why are dvd players able to play the videos without so much
> processing power?  Is it just that h264 takes that much horsepower
> to decode the mpeg4 versus dvd player's mpeg2?

Well, set top boxes have some dedicated hardware that is custom fitted
to decode this type of content, so it can be made fast, low power, and
cheap because it sells by millions.

Guillaume