Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

[Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@bellsouth.net>]

* Jo Shields <jo.shields@oerc.ox.ac.uk> [2007-08-20 13:12:17 +0100]:

> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> > * Jo Shields <jo.shields@oerc.ox.ac.uk> [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]:
> > 
> > > In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double
> > > that. It's a significantly faster floating point chip, albeit with
> > > significantly worse memory bandwidth.
> > 
> > Thanks!  Do you know of a URL that lays out all the plusses/minuses in a
> > convenient form.
> 
> Here's one: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2007/08/msg00071.html

Let me ask a followup:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2007/08/msg00072.html

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