[mythtv-users] Early hardware h264 support for Intel hardware

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>>> It looks like Intel is moving towards hardware decoding of h264 video:
>>>
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-March/006378.html
>>>
>>> That would be sweet!  And it would give the ion a run for its money.
>>>
>>> --Yan
>>>
>>
>> Wow, depending on the chipset support and performance, this could be a
>> game changer.
>
> hmm, i seem to remember a conversation like this about 2 years ago
> that prompted me (my fault, i know) to run out and buy in Intel mobo
> with Intel graphics and chipset that never got support.  too bad
> really cause it's a decent board (way overpowered) for an HTPC setup.
> would be nice if there was another decent player in the graphics game
> though.  options are always welcome. :)

I guess they learned that not everyone was going to go out and buy a
lot of horsepower (what they wanted with viiv) to play multimedia
efficiently..  Glad that flopped and they may be learning...  Would be
nice if they make this happen..

-Greg