[mythtv-users] Dumb question about VDPAU

[John Drescher]

> That's what I thought. So it struck me as strange
> that there are all these threads about how the only
> advantage of VDPAU was better de-interlacing.
> For me, the advantage is lowered CPU loads for
> decompression.
>
The advantage is being able to decompress mpeg2 and other formats with
very little cpu usage. I get less than 20% of one core at the lowest
speedstep while rendering h264. Instead if 40% at the full speed.

John