[mythtv-users] VDPAU, CPU and deinterlacers

[Jongi]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:01:16 +0200, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>  
wrote:

> On 9/28/2009 13:39, Victor wrote:
>> Got a new frontend working with a IGB 8200. Initially it had a dual
>> core AMD 7750 and everything looked good with Advanced 2x
>> deinterlacers and all.
>>
>> Then I swapped the CPU with a Sempron LE-1250 and now the only
>> deinterlacer that works decent is one-field, all the others stutter
>> but CPU load never goes above 20%.
>>
>> Is this a hardware limitation on VDPAU?, do we still need to put high
>> end n-core CPUs in our frontends?
>>
> The deinterlacers in VDPAU are all performed on the shader hardware on  
> the GPU.  Changing the CPU will have no effect on their performance.   
> Furthermore, the 8200IGP has insufficient power to do advanced 2x on HD  
> material.
>
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This was something I was going to ask. As I had been thinking of either  
upgrading my CPU (Athlon64 X2 5200) to an X3; or Video card (IGP8200) to  
9500GT. This confirms that the 9500GT route is what I should do.

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