[mythtv-users] VDPAU and the future of upgrades

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 00:14:00 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Robert <RobertCL at iname.com> wrote:
> On Wed, December 31, 2008 3:32 pm, j w wrote:
>> As I understand it, with the impending implementation of VDPAU, a good
>> deal
>> of the graphics processing will move from the CPU to the graphics card.
>> Encoding is handled by the tuners.  Is there anything else going on that
>> is
>> CPU intensive enough to move me off of my FE/BE M2NPV-VM w/ 4200 dual core
>> processor?
>
> Transcoding / commflagging if you do such things?
>
> But I guess depending on how you use Myth - i.e.  if there is a relatively
> long period between recording and watching - you could just wait for a
> slower system to do this.
>
> Robert.



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