[mythtv-users] Nvidia CUDA / HD decoding

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/19/2007 03:27 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 2/19/07, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:>
>>     
>>> Mike, all, thank you for the info in this thread. Always an education..
>>>
>>> However, if I understand it correctly:
>>>
>>> 1. Hardware accel for H.264/MPEG4 is available via OpenGL
>>>       
>> Yes - but only to the same extent that h.264 decoding is available via
>> the CPU ie someone has to write the code (not a Sunday night job...)
>>     

Exactly.

> The other thing is, these GPUs are remarkably powerful.  Once a
> programmable GPU is brought into play, you can easily see some cool
> scaling, de-interlacing, and other post-processing being done.
>
> I'm sure it will take a while.  But, the potential is exciting.

Yep.  And, that potential goes by the name "PureVideo" or "AVIVO" 
(depending on your video card vendor of choice).  :)  In other words, 
everything that's being done on Windows could potentially be done in 
Linux with these cards, but using an open API.  The main limitation is 
the size of the program supported by the video card's (hardware) 
programmable pipeline, and it may mean that some cards can do full 
decode /and/ "post processing" while others can do either decode or 
processing while others can handle only processing and, of course, some 
may not be able to handle either.

OK, strike that.  The main limitation is developer time.  The second 
limitation is the above.  :)

Mike