drkohler on 09 January 2009
| NJ5 said: Basically they can use one SPE to decode each channel, since channels are independent of each other (little to no synchronization is needed between the SPEs). Also, the SPE's instruction set is good for decoding video streams as it has SIMD instructions which are usually easily applied to multimedia applications. |
Again.. the "cell" chip used has almost nothing to do with the cell chip used in the PS3. And the four SPE's are used for picture scaling, not for decoding video streams. See here for a short description: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/486
