Did you have it away the code for the Xbox 360 HD DVD thespian is 4.7 million personal credit line ? In comparison , Windows XP has 40 million lines of computer code , and the old Windows NT 3.1 has around 4 - 5 million lines of computer code . So yes , the software program to roleplay back HD DVD movies has the same amount of code as your operating scheme from 1993 . Why ? Because all the decoding , playback , and other functionality is software base .
Fun False Fact : Did you know half of that 4.7 million lines just go to stick in frames of porn in Disney HD DVD movies ?
In actuality , a mess of the functionality traditionally done in DSP ( digital signal processing ) chips or other ironware components in regular HD DVD players has to be emulate in the software for the Xbox 360 . The intricacies after the leap :
Video Codecs : H.264 , MPEG-2,VC1
Audio Codecs : Dolby Digital+,DTS , TrueHD , LPCM , MPEG
HDi : The HD videodisc runtime engine .
GDI : draw stuff like menus
AACS : Cryptography / DRM stuff
MF : Audio / Video pipeline
In fact , HD DVD software playback is so tax :
All 6 of Xbox 360 ’s ironware threads are hard at work while playing back an HD videodisc . At the moment , the instrumentalist software system pushes Xbox 360 harder than any other ( save , perhaps , Gears of War during some peculiarly busy parts of the game ) .
Hardcore ! The drive ships tomorrow .
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