[mythtv-users] VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks!

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Mar 29 04:09:45 UTC 2009


Bob Sully wrote:
> Yeah, have to concur.  I built a BE/FE around a Core 2 Quad 6600 and an
> 8600GT video card last year; wish I hadn't now - with VDPAU, watching HD
> 720p video files requires consistently *less than 1%* CPU utilization;
> 1080 only slightly more.  This would have run just fine on the old
> Athlon-64x2 system I upgraded from!
Any AthX2 should have no problem with anything you record in the US, or 
download online.  The only thing that should give it trouble would be 
(single sliced) HDPVR recordings, for which you would be using trunk 
anyway and wouldn't need the backport, or high bitrate BluRay/HDDVD content.


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