[ale] OT: hackable device

[Derek Atkins]

Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> writes:

> Its all about the video card.
>
> On 6/12/12, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm still amazed how these small devices can play 1080p video when my
>> old desktop P4 2.4 MHz is choking on even smaller resolutions :)

Video Card and HD Offload into a GPU.  Basically, they are doing HD
decode/processing in hardware.  You could do HD with a P4 if you had a
video card with HD offload, like a recent NVidia with VDPAU support.

-derek

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