I think the subject is wrong : it's not 'the secret project of Hyperion' because it has been a long time someone speak about a secret project.
It's just blah, blah, blah, etc. MOD NOTE: While I understand the sentiment, be careful with vulgar references, they are noted allowed per TOS, in reference to such the TOS says: "Help keep our forums clean, and a cut above the rest."
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I bet that £15 DVD player I bought for my son yesterday doesn't have a multi-GHz CPU. Throwing CPU power at DVD decoding is a very Windows way of thinking. I'd prefer a hardware decoder on a PCI card or even built into the motherboard.
You can use a hardware decoder but such chips are not free and when you are not watching a DVD that chip can not be used for anything else. If you wanted parallelism you could always add 2nd CPU to do its job. It is much better solution than a custom chip which can do only one thing sitting unused most of time.
You can ask yourself would you buy a dedicated PCI card to play MP3s? You could play MP3s on your Amiga with almost no CPU usage at all
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Again, personally I'd prefer a hardware solution. Bit more Amiga-like imho
And btw Windows does more HW accelerating than Amiga does.
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