[mythtv-users] Refund: Speed up the development of Hardware acceleration in Mythtv

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:48 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:29:11AM -0700, Sepp Herrberger wrote:
>> Hi Jedi,
>>
>> thanks for your response.
>> Currently only NVIDIA can use Video Acceleration.
>> With VAAPI it is possible for Intel and AMD Chips too.
>> And to be honest -> Try to find a performant onboard graphic Chip that is from NVIDIA and fits into a micro ATX case.
>> Should be realy hard.
>
> It's pretty trivial to find a suitable NV option.
>
> OTOH, I don't believe Intel offers anything worthwhile even on Windows.
>
> Better ATI support would probably be cool though.
>
> [deletia]
>
> The video drivers have to be sorted out first.

This is my problem with this discussion. I have avoided ATI caards for
years because their drivers on linux are crap. Watching discussions
here, that still seems ot be the case.

What use is vaapi if there isn't a driver layer underneath it to make
the cards work in the first place?