[x264-devel] Re: Another CPU related question

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Pedro Tumusok wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since my innocent SSE3 questions spurned some replies, I tought I should ask
> another questions.
>
> The Cell cpu from IBM/Sony el, the PPU is some sort of PPC and according to
> what I read, PPC software should be recompilable and able to run on the
> Cell. Albeit without using the SPU's, and according to different
> presentations and concept proofs etc, the Cell with SPU is a streaming
> device ie it can use the SPU's to offload bits of work.
>
> There has been some articles about it being able to decode 48 mpeg2 streams
> at once or something like that, so then to my question, do you belive it
> would be able to show similar kind of performance in encoding?

48 mpeg2 streams? You don't need a Cell for that, unless they're 1080p or 
something. A dvd takes 2% cpu on my Athlon64 3400, so the only thing 
preventing me from displaying 48 of them is bandwidth to the harddrive 
and video card.

--Loren Merritt

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