2011-10-03, 01:30
alexrose1uk Wrote:In terms of hardware requirements; I think the damage isn't going to be quite as bad as people expect unless computers are REALLY pushing it on the specification side.
To see what reasonably could be expected, this evening I threw a Hi10p 720 OP sequence through MPC-HC using LAV on an old AMD X2 3800+ machine (with subs enabled which causes higher CPU usage). It actually ran with no drops, CPU usage was a little on the high side (about 70-80%) at points but it was definately playable.
In terms of XBMC though I'm pretty sure it's limited to only using a single core for decoding - the ffmpeg-mt patches didn't land until March, and XBMC uses the February ffmpeg.
However, 10-bit was added to ffmpeg after the MT patches landed, so it's probably a fair test.