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<blockquote data-quote="kellizer2" data-source="post: 137977" data-attributes="member: 27444">Excuse my ignorance, but why can't the TV server undertake Pre-Processing on the H.264 transmission prior to being streamed to clients?&nbsp;&nbsp; From reading up on the issue - the H.264 codec is cpu intensive as it compresses large volumes of data into smaller packets thus taking large volume of processing power to decompress - if the transmission was processed (or partly processed) on the server then part processed (but large data stream) could then be passed to the clients for the final rendering. The reason that I ask is that the TV server could potentially take the brunt of the processing while watch HDTV thus leaving the clients to be not as powerful (thus not as expensive, noisy etc). If this was possible, then I could even us a mac mini as the main client in my living room and watch HDTV!Does this make sense - and theoretically, is the above concept possible?Many Thanks,Ian.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kellizer2, post: 137977, member: 27444"] Excuse my ignorance, but why can't the TV server undertake Pre-Processing on the H.264 transmission prior to being streamed to clients? From reading up on the issue - the H.264 codec is cpu intensive as it compresses large volumes of data into smaller packets thus taking large volume of processing power to decompress - if the transmission was processed (or partly processed) on the server then part processed (but large data stream) could then be passed to the clients for the final rendering. The reason that I ask is that the TV server could potentially take the brunt of the processing while watch HDTV thus leaving the clients to be not as powerful (thus not as expensive, noisy etc). If this was possible, then I could even us a mac mini as the main client in my living room and watch HDTV! Does this make sense - and theoretically, is the above concept possible? Many Thanks, Ian. [/QUOTE]

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