[mythtv-users] HD Playback

[Raymond Wagner]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM, MrVining
> <myth-user-discussion at mrvining.com> wrote:
>   
>> Well it looks like I got my answer, or the first part of it anyway...  VDPAU
>> is the decompression I want to be using at least for an nVidia card.  Is
>> there anything similar for an ATI card?
>>     
> no
>   

Well there's a bit more than a direct 'no'.  ATI is pushing XvBA (xvideo 
bitstream acceleration), and Intel VAAPI (video acceleration API), 
however nVidia's VDPAU is the only one that has made a functional 
release such software can be written around it.