[mythtv-users] Hardware advice requested.

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 15:34:37 UTC 2009


Hi

2009/1/28 Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net>:
> what you get will work for VC-1/VDPAU. I have yet to encounter much VC-1
> encoded video, even online, so I haven't really seen a need to bother with

Really ?

All HD-DVD rips will be VC-1 encoded, and quite a few BD are encoded with VC-1

Look at the list of the newly released Bluray:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/

I'd say the majority of them is encoded with VC-1


> it. If I do, and I really must play it, I suppose I'll transcode. Hopefully
> NVidia will get better support for it in the future. Even a partial offload
> would help. At the very least, it would be nice to be able to tell BEFORE I
> buy the card if it's supported.

Problem is VDPAU is about doing the decoding 100% in hardware... So
they can't do things like simply offloading some tasks like they do on
Windows


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