<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Rob Jensen <<a href="mailto:bertaboy@gmail.com">bertaboy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> How would the video performance of the ION2 and the HD3000 stack up<br>
> against an AMD E-450 w/ the HD6320? Over my years of using myth &<br>
> linux, I know that nVidia has traditionally been the darling, but have<br>
> there been enough improvement in VAAPI where an AMD solution is a<br>
> viable low-energy frontend? All of the documentation and discussions<br>
> I've seen tend to come from 2011 and a lot can change over two years.<br>
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</div>A lot of promises, and ship dates, have changed. ATI / AMD have<br>
made progress, but as of now, there are only anecdotal reports of<br>
using the newest ATI drivers (released just a few months ago) to<br>
do hardware decoding (UVD). btw, UVD is being exposed over<br>
VDPAU, not VAAPI. Some of the reports I saw indicated that some<br>
VDPAU supporting applications invoked options/features that the<br>
ATI driver did not like (MythTV and XBMC apps were mentioned).<br>
That is not entirely surprising, since all the code had been written<br>
for nVidia, and the codes likely made assumptions about capabilities.<br>
So, AMD is still a work in progress. I also presume that your<br>
patches to better support UVD in MythTV would be welcomed by<br>
the developers.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>One of the XBMC developers (fritsch) has been trying to get better AMD/ATi graphics performance for a while He is on the point of giving up, see for example<br><br><a href="http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169873&pid=1471482#pid1471482">http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169873&pid=1471482#pid1471482</a><br>
<br>Also don't forget, if you want to watch bluray rips, you won't get HD audio out of AMD devices on linux, so DTS-core is best you will get on DTS-HD rips and you won't get TrueHD at all.<br><br>All in all, I think AMD is probably the worst choice for a linux HTPC. Intel is making good progress. nVidia still rulez.<br>
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