[mythtv-users] ati mpeg acceleration

Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net
Mon Nov 24 10:57:12 EST 2003


On November 24, 2003 08:24 am, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> Is it possible using the gatos drivers to have an ATI card handle the
> hardware mpeg2 decoding tasks, so that one could build a machine with
> a/multiple PVR-250's/M179's with an older processor and allow the ATI card
> to deal with the decoding?  Has anyone tried this? How well does this work?
> This assumes playback on the pc itself, not TV out.

Most ATI cards only have iDCT, color space conversion, and scaling in 
hardware. And I don't think any of the ATI drivers support the iDCT. IIRC.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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