[mythtv-users] VDPAU ?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Nick
>
> One potential (again temporary?) advantage of such CPU grunt is that VLC can also well play our 1080i - as VLC has yet to gain
> vdpau. (So far as I know)
>
> This of course assumes one might want to do that, I do and it works well as I play live 1080i content from a HDHomerun - it well
> avoids questions of live TV issues in myth!
>
> It has also been pointed out that comm flagging can be better handled by more CPU while video is offloaded to the GPU.
>
> There are plenty of places I'd look for problems playing vdpau before I'd look to the CPU.
>

Yes CPU grunt still has its uses, I was just explaining that the OP
obviously misunderstood the comment about the E8500