[mythtv-users] hardware considerations: fast CPU vs nvidia/vdpau?

[Ronald Frazier]

> You missed nVidia's greatest advantage - the VDPAU Advanced deinterlacers
> (and indeed, even the lesser Temporal 2x deinterlacer) are visibly better
> than Yadif or Greedy.

That's one of 3 advantages that immediately come to mind. The other two:
1) With VDPAU, you get a nice, hi-res OSD no matter what the source
resolution of the recording. With software playback, it's scaled to
the video res, so on 480i content, you'll get an ugly, low res OSD.
2) Not sure how much this is an issue with the latest processors, but
on my frontend (high end core 2 duo), I could not playback a lot of
BluRay content because it was such high bitrate and was encoded
without slicing. That prevented multi-cpu decoding, so even though 1
core was sitting there doing nothing, the other core couldn't keep up
with the video, and thus it was unplayable. I'm not sure if the
current processors are now fast enough to handle the highest bitrate
decoding on a single core. If so, then this issue is no longer so
important.

-- 
Ron Frazier