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

[Bob Sully]

Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 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.
>

That's right - it did not have any problems with HD (720p or 1080i)
recordings.  It did have issues with mid-bit-rate .ts files from the
HD-PVR (recorded via the command-line)  and some 1080p video files (this
is why I upgraded).  I'll bet it would have handled both of these with
VDPAU.

No problem - as always with Linux, older hardware is still useful - it's
being retrained as an OpenVZ server container and storage server ;-)




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