Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2003-11-14-02:51:10 Adam Bridge: > TiVo's run a version of Linux on relatively slow Intel processors. Um, PowerPC, aren't they? But slow (and thus inexpensive and very low in heat dissipation), yes. There isn't that much CPU grunt required because the computational heavy lifting is done by MPEG encoder and decoder chips, a DSP, stuff like that. Oh, and I was wrong in an earlier post when I guessed that MPEG-1 encoding was used; per some plausible sources I found, it would appear to be 352x480 MPEG-2 (so, full NTSC vertical resolution but halved horizontal resolution). - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html