<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Richard Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton@gmail.com">richard.e.morton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>The quick answer is there is pros for both<br>
Ion pros<br>
Can be totally silent<br>
Low power usage even during playback</p>
<p>I3 pros<br>
Not limited to hardware support of codecs (vdpau only supports a subset of h264)<br>
I3 more flexible platform for generic computing and transcoding jobs</p>
<p>Hope that helps<br>
R</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You missed nVidia's greatest advantage - the VDPAU Advanced deinterlacers (and indeed, even the lesser Temporal 2x deinterlacer) are visibly better than Yadif or Greedy.</div><div>
<br></div><div>- Chris </div></div>