[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Tom Bongiorno Jr. <tbjr at bongohut.com> wrote:
.....
> Nvidia graphics use VDPAU
> Intel graphics, such as in the ECS Liva, use VAAPI

Again, slightly incomplete.  There is actually a backend
for VAAPI to support VDPAU capable cards (and one
that goes the other way, too).  So it is possible to write
for a particular API and have "support" for the other cards
hardware.  However, those translation libraries have
limitations, and not all features tend to be available when
you use the API targeted for the "other" hardware.  And
while we are writing, do not forget OMX (which is yet
another API to rule them all, and is the one that many of
the SoC devices provide support for).

Competing standards.  https://xkcd.com/927/