<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
But price of tech is constantly decreasing, and this will spur an even greater push for decreasing cost. I /promise/ you something better will come along eventually... I don't remember anyone on the starship Enterprise ever using an RPi. :)</blockquote>
<div><br>By that rationale, why purchase or code for anything if something better is coming along?<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
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Second, A C2D will play back 1080p but it won't do it as well as a<br>
GPU-offloading solution. You'll get tearing, jitter, and overall a somewhat<br>
crappy experience. It will "work", but it won't make the wife happy.<br>
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No, tearing and jitter have nothing at all to do with decoding--only with rendering. I use software decode on my AMD Athlon II and render with VDPAU (because VDPAU /is/ a great rendering tech--much better than 20+ year old Xv and--especially with our current implementations--more efficient than OpenGL video rendering). The VDPAU hardware decode is the least useful part of VDPAU given a real processor. (In other words, I love PAU, but don't want or need VD.*** :)<br>
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If you're getting tearing and jitter and a somewhat crappy experience, the problem isn't software decoding or the CPU...<br></blockquote><div><br>I will defer to you, because I have no idea the difference between decoding and rendering. But it sounds to me that you're offloading /some/ of the playback duties from your Athlon to your VDPAU device, which somewhat defeats your earlier assertion that a Core 2 Duo was 'good enough' (and I'm massively paraphrasing here). <br>
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