[mythtv-users] Nvidia CUDA / HD decoding

Mark Kendall mark.kendall at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 11:19:48 UTC 2007


On 2/18/07, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Short of doing something like that, are there any other optimizations
> that come to mind, making that type of playback easier? XvMC can't do
> anything for, H.264 for example, as far as I can tell...
>
> For what it's worth, I can play back some of the most intensive 1080p
> content I've found (several of the BBC demos) on a Athlon 64 x2
> @2.9ghz, at about 80% CPU. I'd imagine that's about 50% more
> horsepower than most people are packing in their front ends right
> now.. certain more than my main frontend.
>
> thoughts?

Well, I'm sure there's plenty that can be offloaded to the GPU (and
Google will give you a starter for 10 with h264 offload) but I'm not
sure CUDA is the way I'd go. It's specific to Nvidia hardware (and top
end at that) and it's not exactly a standard. Before I'd invest a
large amout of time in working with something like this, I'd llike it
to be a portable standard that doesn't require a special version of
the driver to run.

What's more, a lot of the power (but maybe not as flexible) can be
accessed through opengl already.

Regards

Mark


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