[mythtv-users] ATI AVIVO

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Jun 30, 2006, at 18.23, Mike Choy wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> Have enabled ATI AVIVO Support on my laptop , seems to work, has  
> anyone
> else got any experience, say vs XvMC.

Uhh, I'm not totally sure it's going to work. AVIVO (http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIVO) seems to be purely software. Not sure  
there's any Linux support on that. Even if it is, I doubt you're  
going to see any improvement versus XvMC. The purpose of XvMC is to  
offload some of the MPEG-2 decoding to the GPU.

AVIVO doesn't have a thing to do with the GPU, but relies entirely on  
the CPU for work. High-Def MPEG-2 is straining enough to the CPU, so  
I doubt you're going to see ANY improvement. Besides, AVIVO does  
ENcoding. XvMC does DEcoding.

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