AMD E-350

[Tom Evans]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Tom Evans wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much choice when
>  > > building a low-noise and low-power surf box for the living
>  > > room based on FreeBSD.  Atom boards run (mostly), but they
>  > > don't have HDMI output with full HD support.  AMD E-350 is
>  > > not supported by FreeBSD, as you wrote above ...  Not much
>  > > left ...
>  >
>  > Any atom board with nvidia ion graphics will be able to use hw
>  > acceleration (vdpau) to decode full hd x264 and output over HDMI, eg
>  > http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12677
>
> Not bad, but unfortunately it's not fanless, and the Atom 330
> is quite old and slower than the AMD E-350 ...  But it might
> still be an option if I don't want to run Linux.
>
>  > I use a much weaker nvidia graphics card and can decode 1080p HD
>  > broadcasts with full acceleration.
>
> Is that also with an Atom N330?  My home router is an N330-
> based box (though headless, without HD-capable graphics),
> so I know it's rather slow.  I doubt it can decode H.264
> at 1080p.
>
> This is really a difficult decision ...
>
> Best regards
>   Oliver
>

No, its with a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo, but that is largely irrelevant. With
VDPAU and a co-operating nvidia graphics card, you can decode full HD
no problem, with close to zero CPU usage:

tom        47467  0.9  2.1 278464 87360   0  S+    4:32pm   0:01.21
mplayer -v /tank/video/recordings/hd.bbc.co.uk/2011/03/12/16_50_rugby-wales-vs-ireland-2011-6-nations.0.ts

This is a 1440x1080 MPEG-4 AVC HD stream I captured over the weekend,
playing back using 1% CPU. I wouldn't have thought the CPU would have
that much effect on that.

Cheers

Tom