[mythtv-users] FYI - New HW video accellAPI from NVIDIA

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:05 AM,  <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>> or plug all those HDMI connections into a receiver and get
>>> uncompressed high quality audio...
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by that Steve but it sounds interesting
>
> The bandwidth in HDMI was set to allow uncompressed multichannel audio
> up to (and possibly exceeding) 7.1 at a very high bitrate which allows
> for very high quality audio (think better than DVD-Audio/SACD). It has
> been taken use of with Blu-Ray(and what was HD-DVD) and is slowly
> becoming the replacement for the old DVD-Audio/SACD debacle for music.
>
> It may not be better(or worse?) than the DisplayPort thing, but it is
> a standard that is in place and being used quite extensively.

DisplayPort standard allows for more bandwidth (10.8Gbps) so  
theoretically better. HDMI 1.3 offers 10.2 Gbps which is more than  
earlier versions, but I don't know what they offered. DisplayPort also  
allows for great color depths and refresh rates than HDMI. Apple and  
Dell (and probably others) have started using DisplayPort as their  
preferred and standard port. I hope more people use it. Lots more info  
here: http://displayport.org

None of this has anything to do with the new nVidia API. ;)

-Brad