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

Henrik Beckman henrik.list at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 17:31:30 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I posted the following on the nvidia forums. Those are my findings
> about all the nvidia cards I own and how they perform with VDPAU.
>

<snip>


>
>
> Now, why the 8400gs doesn't perform as well as the 8600GT when it has
> a faster GPU ; no idea
> And even more hard to understand, why a macbook gives me perfect
> result, when the 9400G based motherboard with the same chipset but
> faster gives me something that while definitely usable not as nice as
> the macbook..
>

Could it be bandwith limited or is the deinterlacing done by something
(shaders) outside the video engine?

Afaik (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2798&p=3) the video
engine runs at core clock and should perform based on that.


>
> Hope this help someone looking at their next purchase ... if you want
> to add your finding with your own video card (using different chipset
> if possible)
> Jean-Yves
> _______________________________________________
>

/Henrik
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