[mythtv-users] HD Playback

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> 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.

My answer related to waht is available now