[mythtv-users] The best VDPAU video card

[Bill Williamson]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 2009/2/20 Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com>:
> >> I was looking for an 8400 series but perhaps I am going about this the
> >> wrong way...
> >
> >
> > What processor do you have?
> >
> > At this stage, of the card you've listed , only the 8400gs will do
> > VC-1 decoding in hardware.
> > But on the other hand, it will have the least capabilities when it
> > comes to deinterlacing.
> >
> > In my opinion, if you have enough CPU grunt, VC-1 decoding isn't that
> > important compare to a good quality deinterlacer.
> >
>
> I have an AMD64 AM2 5000+ cpu. I was expecting this to be plenty fast
> enough to do everything in software but my motherboard seems to not be
> playing fair (I think) as I have not been able to get decent playback
> without prebuffering pause or audio buffer messages in the log file,
> even with vdpau enabled.
>

I think you have other issues then.  Perhaps test in isolation with vdpau
mplayer?
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