On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><div>On Dec 24, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Michael Tiller wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">So I got an HD-PVR for Christmas. I also asked for and got an NVIDIA 8400GS expecting that my system won't be able to play back the recordings very nicely.<br>
<br>As I see it, I have several choices:<br><ol><li>Wait until 0.22 and have both HD-PVR and VDPAU support in that.</li> <li>Install 0.21-fixes + HD-PVR support as a patch (I assume this is available, I saw something about it).</li>
<li>Upgrade to trunk (and the associated instability)</li></ol></blockquote><br></div>I recommend capturing some sample video with your new device in Windows with its supported drivers/software and see if you can play back on your frontend at an acceptable compression rate before continuing on worrying about what to do next.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I sort of did this already. I grabbed some samples off the Wiki. My best recollection is that the lost resolution one was OK, but the higher ones weren't. In any case, I'm going to give what you suggest a try and try and build an HD-PVR capable version of 0.21-fixes first. One problem I've already found with that is that the thread where these patches were mentioned also mentions some manual schema modification in order to support this patch. I'm a bit concerned about how to get to 0.22 if I go this route.<br>
<br>I don't suppose anybody has any debs for a 0.21-fixes + HD-PVR?!? (just to save me the trouble of doing the builds ;-)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div></div><div>Upgrading to trunk is always a decision you have to make yourself. You have to decide if you're going to take the time and effort it takes to catch up on the -dev and -commit lists and follow them. This will answer your questions about "which build should I use?"</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I realize I could watch -commits and -dev and look for a point where the trunk has mainly stabilized. However, my point was I'd be perfectly happy for someone to tell me such a point in the past as well. I'm assuming that such points have been reached between now and when VDPAU support showed up. So if anybody has any suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm assuming I'm not the only one in this boat.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">Don't forget that if you're going with option 3, you also need to run beta video drivers from nvidia which can be challenging on its own.</div>
</blockquote><div><br>Good point. Thanks.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div>-Brad</div><font color="#888888"></font></div>
</blockquote><div><br>Good discussion<br><br>--<br>Mike<br> <br></div></div><br>