[mythtv-users] vdpau accelerated mythcommflag and/or ffmpeg?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/4/2011 16:47, Will Dormann wrote:
> I've got an Atom 330 ION system with an HD-PVR set up as a combined
> frontend/backend and it's quite slick.   Except mythcommflag and ffmpeg
> (for mytharchive) are really slow!   The former gets about 9fps and the
> latter is 4fps.
>
> Is this because the h264 decoding is done by the CPU rather than the GPU?

Yes.  That is because you are using an Atom, which has very little power 
of its own, instead relying on hardware decoding in the GPU for all 
tasks.  MythTV is not currently set up to extract decoded textures from 
back out of VDPAU, so all processing happens entirely within software.