<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jay Foster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayf0ster@sbcglobal.net">jayf0ster@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2/10/2011 4:00 AM, "Bob Sully"<<a href="mailto:rcs@malibyte.net" target="_blank">rcs@malibyte.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Message: 5<br>
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:17:33 -0500<br>
> From: Raymond Wagner<<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>><br>
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>> It has an early Intel dual-core Intel CPU, 4G of RAM,<br>
>> and an NVidia Quadro 140 video card. While it*should* be able to do<br>
>> VDPAU, it's never been quite there (I have tried just about every tweak,<br>
>> with different VDPAU profiles (including Slim), but it<br>
>> stutters/hesitates,<br>
>> and eventually bogs down to the point where it's unusable).<br>
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> MythTV has never been happy using VDPAU with less than 512MB of memory.<br>
> How much have you allocated to the graphics chip?<br>
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It reports a total of 512M. I'm just not sure why it doesn't work...it's<br>
supposed to.<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
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Maybe I missed it in this thread, but what does "XvMC and libmpeg2 to be dropped in 0.25" really mean? Does this mean that I will no longer be able to play back my MPEG2 videos (DVD and HDHR TV recordings)? Will doing so be possible only with VDPAU? To me, that seems a bit restrictive. The software decode/playback seems more tolerant of data errors than VDPAU, so some (me) prefer it. It would also lock everyone into a single vendor NVIDIA for video cards. That doesn't seem like the open source MythTV way. Hopefully, this is not what dropping libmpeg2 in 0.25 means.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It means exactly what it says. XvMC will be dropped. XvMC is a pre-VDPAU hardware acceleration API supported on some Nvidia cards. It is not software decode. libmpeg2 is also being dropped (or already dropped?) and that is an *alternative* to the standard ffmpeg software decode in Myth that was never well-used or supported. So in 0.25 you will have the option of software playback (ffmpeg) or hardware (VDPAU or other tech)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div>