[mythtv-users] Intel Celeron G1610 2.6GHz LGA

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/23/2013 4:47 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>                 1. Intel GPU decoding will not even come close to
>         NVidia in
>                 quality.  Fine for casual watching, but I wouldn't
>         want it in
>                 my home theater.
>
>
>             Intel GPU decoding will not do anything.  Neither your
>         G540, nor
>             the OP's proposed G1610, have that feature enabled.
>
>
>         My G540 is definitely using it's GPU to decode the video via
>         VA-API.
>
>
>     Your CPU does not support it.
>
>     http://ark.intel.com/products/53416#CVTHD
>
>
> Then how do you explain my using it in mythtv and having CPU 
> utilization drop from 110% to 5% on a test video.
>

It seems Clear Video is the hardware video decoding capability, while 
Clear Video HD is a set of post-processing tools.  The Pentium and 
Celeron processors lack any of the video post-processing, however Intel 
does not appear to document which processors have basic video decoding.