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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Rob Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kormoc@mythtv.org">kormoc@mythtv.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Jay Foster <<a href="mailto:jayf0ster@sbcglobal.net">jayf0ster@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Maybe I missed it in this thread, but what does "XvMC and libmpeg2 to be<br>
> dropped in 0.25" really mean? Does this mean that I will no longer be able<br>> to play back my MPEG2 videos (DVD and HDHR TV recordings)? Will doing so be<br>> possible only with VDPAU? To me, that seems a bit restrictive. The<br>
> software decode/playback seems more tolerant of data errors than VDPAU, so<br>> some (me) prefer it. It would also lock everyone into a single vendor<br>> NVIDIA for video cards. That doesn't seem like the open source MythTV way.<br>
> Hopefully, this is not what dropping libmpeg2 in 0.25 means.<br><br></div>No, that's not what it means.<br><br>We currently have the following options:<br>XV (Pure Software)<br>XV with LibMpeg2 (Pure Software optimized for old AMD k2 processors<br>
with reduced quality)<br>XvMC (Slight Hardware Offload)<br>VDPAU (Hardware Offload)<br>OpenGL<br><br><br>XV with LibMpeg2 really hasn't been useful to anyone for years and<br>users toggle it on and get a worse looking picture and then blame myth<br>
for being 'crappy'. It's a toggle switch that just needs to be<br>removed.<br><br>You'll still be able to play your dvds/whatnots in pure software<br>modes, just without speed hacks for processors that are 8 years old.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">XvMC was b0rked awhile for me, I think it was an update Nvida pushed out. Don't know if they ever fixed it. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">It's my impression that VDPAU is the "next big thing" and being actively developed. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">By that time, I was starting to venture into HD land. Circuit City was selling HDTV PCI/PCIe cards for about $40 at the time, since they were going out of buisness (Hauppage 1600's)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">And my original backend went belly up. So, it was about time that I upgraded and re-purposed some hardware.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Never looked back.</div>