[mythtv-users] vdpau sanity check

[jedi]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:59:29AM -0400, jansenj wrote:
> So I thought I'd venture into the world of vdpau, and am hoping someone can
> help me do a sanity check.
> 
> My setup:
> FE/BE
> AMD 3200 Athlon64 2GHz
> 3G RAM
> ATSC hdhomerun recordings
> Display on 1080p screen
> 9500GT 512MB
> 
> With vdpau enabled, and using Advanced 2x deinterlace, I'm still at 30%
> CPU...but as I write this I realize it is most likely still sitting at 1GHz
> freq for ondemand.  Does this utilization number sound reasonable?
> 
> I was previously at about 50% Utilized at the full 2Ghz using XVMC on a
> 6600.
> 
> The next challege is getting Audio over HDMI.  .


    Run the frontend with "-v libav". This will allow you to confirm
whether or not you are really using vdpau. If you've installed nvidia
drivers from more than one source, it can be hairy sorting everything
out.


[deletia]