[mythtv-users] 4k video in MythVideo?

[Neil Cooper]

--- On Tue, 1/17/12, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 4k video in MythVideo?
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 11:13 AM
> On 17 January 2012 18:00, Blammo
> <blammo.doh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > out of curiousity, grabbed a couple of 4k res videos
> > (http://wn.com/4k_resolution_time_lapse_footage_time_lapse_american_cities
> > and other places) , tried to play them in Mythfrontend
> (version info
> > below) and was met with "failed to initialize
> AV/Sync". Was curious
> > why/what it took to play these? (The clips play fine
> in VLC btw)
> 
> > 2012-01-17 09:59:42.554 VidOutVDPAU Error: Failed to
> create decoder.
> 
> VDPAU supports a maximum video width or height of 2048. So
> you'd have
> to at least turn off vdpau.
> 
> regards
> 
> Mark
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But VLC uses GPU acceleration, right? How does it cope with bigger images then?