[mythtv-users] Sandy Bridge / Intel HD 3000 support?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 02/24/11 16:39, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 25 February 2011 00:08, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>   
>> But that's the thing.  Any desktop i3/5/7 will have plenty of power to
>> handle any content MythTV might come across with software decoding.
>> Hardware offloading is nice, but unnecessary when you have the CPU power
>> to back it up, which has always been the recommended mode of operation
>> for MythTV, even for machines capable of VDPAU.
>>     
> There are just no software option available that can match the VDPAU
> deinterlacers.
>
> So even on a machine with plenty of CPU grunt, I would use VDPAU
> because it looks much better
>   

That's not what I meant.  I'm not saying that VDPAU should only be used
on hardware that cannot handle content in software. Rather, I'm saying
that availability of VDPAU is not a good reason to otherwise skimp on
the processor, and limit yourself to something that otherwise doesn't
have enough power to handle your content in software.