[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

Gordon McCrae gordon.mccrae at gmail.com
Thu May 21 08:30:02 UTC 2015


On 21/05/15 09:21, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 2) You use a lower power CPU - but you need the help of a GPU to do the video processing. In the PC world this means using vdpau (nVidia) or vaapi (Intel) - both of which are fairly mature (particularly with vdpau) and supported.
>           ^^^^^
>
>> You forgot vdpau (AMD)
> Err, no I didn't !
> What I did forget is that nVidia is part of AMD now :-(  AMD is really nVidia with a different corporate badge on.
>
>
Sorry, but what alternate universe are you from?

ATI is part of AMD, not nVidia.

ATI/AMD and nVidia are very different from both a corporate and 
technical perspective.

Cheers
Gordon


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