[mythtv-users] Nvidia GF8200 and VDPAU performance limits ?

[Stefan Reichel]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:09 +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2009/2/22 George Mogielnicki <george at begos.ca>:
> > I have a bunch of questions to the VDPAU users
> > - is the imperfect video motion common in the other cards ?
> 
> With the current nvidia drivers, If you don't disable Composite then yes
> 
> > - could it be that I hit the performance limit of this chipset ?
> the 8xxx aren't the fastest.
> To me it seems the the number of 3D shader units is a better
> assessment on how well a video card will do VDPAU.
> A reason why my 8400gs running at 678 MHz doesn't do a job anywhere as
> good as my old 8600GT running at 600MHz

My 8200 board handles vdpau quiet well, no problems even with Bob
deinterlacer and hd content. The only problem is the slow 2d
performance, but this seems to be a general nvidia issue.

Stefan

> 
> > - can I count on future improvements to the Nvidia driver to improve the
> > playback
> 
> For sure ; there have been huge improvements between 180.06 to now...
> And they keep fixing bugs lately
> 
> > - what about myth itself, interlacing ?
> >
> > Basically I'm trying to understand if this motherboard has a future with
> > 0.22 when is released.
> 
> You can always add a more powerful discrete video card later..
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