[mythtv-users] Lots of confusion as to which card(s) to buy for vdpau

[Nicolas Will]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:39 -0500, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> The fact that it doesn't support VC-1 means that it's not a G98 or 
> greater core.
> The ones that support VC-1 is an 8400GS, which I can find plenty of, 
> it's just that I've read that they are not powerful enough to do the 
> high end deinterlacing etc.
> Like the subject of the thread says, it's quite confusing.
> Right now I'm trying to decide between te 9500GT or a 8400GS.

Hello,

I've tried Jean-Yves' backport on my laptop, and it's nice, indeed, on
h.264 HD as well as on MPEG-2 SD. Deinterlacing is indeed vastly
superior, CPU usage is close to nil.

It's way cool to be able to take a peek so easily.

However, it is still not fully production-grade, IMO, YMMV, etc...

For example, it barfs (with the apparently infamous error 23 of mplayer,
and the Internal player does not do any better) on the Apple trailers
and quite a few 720p series (origins will ne be discussed here).

So, I have elected to wait until .22 is released, in the hope that VDPAU
will be finalised at the same time. I also have the hope that NVIDIA
will have moved on and will propose new hardware, like a 8400GS
equivalent, price-wise and fan-less too, but with all the grunt for
deinterlacing, as well as with VC-1 support.

Nico
http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc/