[mythtv-users] New frontend... Atom?

[Nicolas Will]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:06 -0600, JEDIDIAH wrote:
> The main 
> driver of getting something like an ION box is the fact that high 
> resolution h264 video doesn't decode well (if at all) on something 
> like an nv7000 based box. 

I'll repeat it until I'm out of keycaps...

VDPAU is not only about decoding HD (which it does very well too).

It is also about SD, deinterlacing, denoising and upscaling.

The algorithms in the silicon are so nice compared to what you can give
to a CPU.

Nico