[mythtv-users] Nvidia GPU for HP Microserver

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Greg Vickers <daehenoc at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 28/07/2014 9:02 am, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:55:16 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>>> Don't get a 210
>>>
>>> Why is that? I have a 210 in my current frontend and according to the
>>> setup wizard it seems to play HD just fine.
>>
>> A 210 will not do playback of interlaced 1080i properly.  If you live
>> somewhere where the TV does not broadcast 1080i, then that may be OK
>> for you.  If you have a 210, you need to have a CPU powerful enough to
>> do the deinterlacing for you.  That used to mean, as a rule of thumb,
>
>
> I have a frontend which plays 1080i just fine with an ASUS GT210 in it,
> recordings and Bluray 1080i files, and it is configured to use VDPAU.  The
> CPU fan never spun up over it's normal operating speed, and watching top
> while playing video, the load on the CPU did not increase between watching
> 1080 or other content.
>
> My 210 is also silent, passively cooled.

Deinterlacing (along with most other aspects of video rendering) are
very subjective. There are some deinterlacing perfectionists on this
list. And good job because some of them are devs, and it's good that
there is a reference open source implementation of great
deinterlacing.

In other words, just because you find it fine, doesn't mean it is as
good as it could be.