[mythtv-users] Best VDPAU card for under $50

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/24/2011 10:00, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Nicolas Will<nico at youplala.net>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 09:45 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>> NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 430 (GF108) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
>>>>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920x1080): 76 fields/s
>>>>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 68 fields/s
>>>>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 85 fields/s
>>>>>
>>> so if I read this correctly, it looks like the 220 is still the way to
>>> go if one wants the highest quality playback w/ deinterlacing?
>> Well, the 430 should do everything with fields/s to spare.
>>
>> The 220 will have more in spare.
>>
>> BUT...
>>
>> The 430 is more or less guaranteed to provide all the HD audio, when the
>> 220 is a hit and miss.
> ah, true, I forgot about that.
>
> I wonder too about future PIP/PBP. from what I understand the dev's
> would like to allow for having multiple streams decoded and displayed
> at the same time, I wonder if the 430 will be powerful enough to
> support this as well as the 220.

I've not heard anything about nVidia developing multiple simultaneous 
stream support for VDPAU.