[mythtv-users] GeForce 8400 still recommended for VDPAU?

[Yeechang Lee]

Greg Grotsky <spikeygg at gmail.com> says:
> Using the information found here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidia_Cards, I
> purchased a 567MHz 8400GS because it sounded like the best solution (and it
> was fanless).

Had you checked <URL:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU> . . .

>   I just got it last week and plugged it in, I'm bummed out because the card
> does fine with the HD content but when I bring up overlays like program
> information or closed captions, it can't hang.  I start to lose sync and
> frames get dropped.

. . . you would have seen my report on the 8400GS and how, despite
working very well otherwise, it stutters when the OSD is up under
VDPAU.

> Do you have any problems on your OC 9500GT with overlays?  I'm
> curious if the newer/faster cards are capable of overlays without
> causing the video to stutter.

I'm curious as well; I'd be surprised if the 9500GT were
stutter-immune in this case, though, because the stuttering occurs
even on SD resolutions. Stuttering occurs (if I am correct) because
the VDPAU hardware doesn't handle the rendering of the OSD (including
caption text); it is overlaid on the VDPAU-decoded and -rendered
video.

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