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2016-02-17, 21:05
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OTA broadcast for regular viewers will be 4:2:0 - that's what ATSC and consumer DVB both use.
Broadcast uplinks (and some - ahem - online versions...) are often 4:2:2 - though increasingly MPEG2 is being replaced by H264.
4:2:2 in either flavour is usually CPU decode only, with no VAAPI support. My i5-4250u NUC can do 38Mbs MPEG2 and H264 1080/50i with a YADIF 2x de-interlace but only since decode became multithreaded.
The WDTVLive is really unusual in supporting hardware MPEG2 4:2:2 decode.
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Hdmkv, u got the new himedia already?
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Yep, have had it for about 2 weeks. Under NDA, so can't comment w/details... all I can say is based on my tests so far, it's excellent! 3D ISO, HD audio, 24p & 4K fans are in for a treat! Basically, everything the current-gen Q5/Q10 do well, but faster, better. There are a few bugs (nothing unfixable, at least I'm speculating not), so a small group of us are providing feedback to HiMedia. Their engineers have been very receptive, responsive. We're expecting to go through a number of firmware updates (from present v1.0), as their engineers have already alerted us, until release to public.
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Cool.
When do you get a green light to talk about it
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It's slated for release March 31 (or early April possibly) I think, so hopefully they okay me posting a review within 3 weeks from now.
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Hey movie78, your avatar (under your forum name) has been broken for some time. Maybe it's pointing to a dead link?
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