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

[Travis Tabbal]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> All the VP2 and VP3 cards support VC-1, the difference is to what
> degree they offload processing from the CPU. Only VP3 (on the G98
> chip) supports full VC-1 decoding on the GPU. Some of the VP1 cards
> have VC-1 decoding support, but only starting with the 6600.



VDPAU doesn't support partial offload. It's all or nothing. So for VC-1, you
must have a VP3 capable GPU.
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