Re: [Hampshire] Intel Atom 330 motherboard

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Author: Stephen Rowles
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Intel Atom 330 motherboard
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking at upgrading my media centre from it's via SP13000 to a shiny
> new intel atom 330 dual-core motherboard [1]. This would allow my media
> centre to have enough power to run the iPlayer inside a web browser and to
> stand more of a chance playing back hi-def content [2].


Another link showing benchmarks for hi-def playback, on windows.

http://www.upgraderguides.com/index.php?type=5&id=233&page=7

No idea how well Linux deals with multi-threaded h.264 decoding though? I
assume that ffmepg, mplayer etc. will work much better in that respect
now?