Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) The Tivo probably has hardware dedicated to the specific purpose of > video processing (a FPGA/CPLD type device, or maybe even an ASIC), where > as your PC has to make do with a general-purpose microprocessor.
Yes, according to http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq04.019.htp there is are dedicated encoder and decoder chips. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Yow! The SAME WAVE keeps coming UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | in and COLLAPSING like a rayon Seattle, WA, USA | MUU-MUU.. http://www.rudedog.org/ |
