[mythtv-users] XvMC and libmpeg2 to be dropped in 0.25

[Brian Wood]

On Sunday, December 05, 2010 01:00:26 pm Juhani Rautiainen wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Brian Wood wrote:
> > Of course they were using highly-optimized code for the DVD player,
> > so it might be better to say that 750 Mhz. is required to decode
> > SD mpeg2 in software. Myth does more than just play the file, so
> > it would need a little more than just decoding would require.
> 
> I'm using ffmpeg decoding in playback and it consumes 25-30% of
> Pentium-M running at 800 MHz (which can scale up to 1.73 GHz). Even
> when recording with one channel with DVB-C and doing simultaneous
> playback and commercial detection it seldom went over 800 MHz in
> 0.23-fixes. With 0.24-fixes CPU goes to 1.73 GHz and commercial
> detection ends almost same time as recording.

A good datapoint, thanks.

> 
> > Of course h264 is an entirely different story.
> 
> My machine can't handle this at all. That's why I'm looking passive
> single slot VPDAU card. But atleast in Finland they are hard to
> find:(.

If by "single slot" you mean "doesn't block the adjacent slot" you may 
have problems. Most (make that every) fanless VDPAU card I have seen 
will block the adjacent slot to some degree.

I have an  EVGA 8400GS card with a fan that can barely be heard (just 
put it into service last night in fact), I have also seen some 
replacement GPU fans on the market that might be quieter than some 
standard ones.