[mythtv-users] Lots of confusion as to which card(s) to buy for vdpau

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 01 February 2009 1:35:47 pm Allen Edwards wrote:
> > I'm running a 8400gs in my production system with vdpau.
> > Works just fine - it can't do the nicest deinterlacers with 1080i
> > sources, but it does bob2x (which looks *much* nicer than the software
> > bob2x with Xv) perfectly well at 1080i, and all the deinterlacers work at
> > lower source resolutions.
> >
> > Isaac
> >
> > __
>
> That's good news!  So, why do some people way it doesn't work?  Are
> you doing something special we should know about?

Other than using trunk?  Nothing much.

I'd *really* recommend not basing any performance/etc data on the backported 
code.

> If  you don't mind a stupid question, if I have an ATSC 1080i input
> signal and a 720p projector as the display, where would you put this
> in the scheme of things processing power wise?

No idea, but it does have to deinterlace before it'd downscale for display, 
and that's where the various cards seem to act differently.

Isaac