[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun - Comcast shut off clear QAM
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Dec 12 18:09:01 UTC 2013
On 12/12/2013 12:57 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> From: "Michael T. Dean"
>> So why not just always use the software decode? I still get to use
>> VDPAU rendering for presentation, so I have the best of both worlds--a
>> decoder that handles anything I throw at it, and beautiful rendering,
>> including a full-screen (not video-sized) OSD. :)
> And I just fell off, so clearly I don't understand VDPAU as well as I
> thought I did. I though it was just a hardware codec interface to on-chip
> MPEG decoding; no?
>
VDPAU is Video Decode & Presentation API for Unix.
The Video Decode part is the part that pushes the encoded video to the
hardware decoder to decode it.
The Video Presentation part is the part that allows drawing the decoded
video frames on screen.
So, the presentation part replaces the
(designed-for-another-simpler-era's-video) Xv rendering with a
more-full-featured rendering and drawing framework (that allows for much
better OSDs and such).
Mike
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