2011-02-16, 05:28
eff_cee Wrote:Does this mean the ATV2 will always be limited to h264 and XBMC will never work with 720 xdivs / wmvs without the stutter ?
Or can the devs code round this hardware limitation ?
While that's something the devs can answer better then I, it's my understanding that one of the main reasons XBMC came to fruition is the discovery of Apple's VideoToolBox API that handles decoding of h.264 at the hardware level. All other decoding is handled in software and the A4 just isn't that fast.
I don't know how difficult or possible it is for other codecs to be decoded at a hardware level on the A4 chip.