[mythtv-users] GeForce 8400 still recommended for VDPAU?

[Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com]

-----Johnny wrote: -----

>I agree that the GPU is probably going to do the work more
>efficiently
>because it has hardware specifically designed for these calculation
>vs. the general purpose hardware on a CPU. Another consideration is
>that you have to have a video card of some kind anyway. Also, the
>x400
>and x500 series cards are on the lower end power wise. We are
>primarily interested in and only utilize the 2D hardware, so we
>aren't
>going to be drawing all the power that the 3D hardware would use
>during gaming. It is important to note that by most accounts the
>image
>quality of the VDPAU deinterlacers is superior to all of the software
>deinterlacers currently available in mythtv, so it isn't just a
>matter
>of shifting computation.

Well actually the VDPAU video decoding uses the 2D hardware, but the VDPAU
deinterlacers uses the 3D hardware.
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