[mythtv-users] Dumb question about VDPAU

[Yeechang Lee]

Kevin Bailey <ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org> says:
> So it struck me as strange that there are all these threads about
> how the only advantage of VDPAU was better de-interlacing.  For me,
> the advantage is lowered CPU loads for decompression.

Speaking of lowered CPU loads, how should we think about from where
VDPAU saves CPU usage? Or, putting it another way, what was using my
CPU before VDPAU?

A MythTV video profile has three main settings: Decoder, Renderer, and
Deinterlacer. Before VDPAU I used Standard (ffmpeg) for decoding,
xv-blit for rendering, and Bob for deinterlacing. How much of the
typical 60-70% CPU usage went to each of the three steps?

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