I just picked up an NVIDIA GT440 cheap on ebay for my familyroom frontend only machine build I'm doing... however if the fan is too loud I may drop it in my backend (which I watch TV on occasionally) and pick up a fanless GT520/610, or GT430.<div>
<br></div><div>Anyway, that got me thinking, if I had a powerful GPU in my backend, could mythtv use it for something other than just occasional playback.</div><div><br></div><div>I know that there is software that will use CUDA to encode (mediacoder for example), and I'm sure with some work I could use them in a transcode script... but it would require Wine and might be a bit kludgy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since NVidia cards are so common in the mythtv community, has any work been done to GPU accelerate the transcode/HLS functionality, or any other functionality that might commonly be found on what is primarily a backend server.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess I'm just asking if there is anything I can do to make use of all of this extra processing power. Ideas?</div>