[mythtv-users] Best VDPAU card for under $50

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 09:45 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> >> NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 430 (GF108) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
>> >> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920x1080): 76 fields/s
>> >> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 68 fields/s
>> >> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 85 fields/s
>> >>
>>
>> so if I read this correctly, it looks like the 220 is still the way to
>> go if one wants the highest quality playback w/ deinterlacing?
>
> Well, the 430 should do everything with fields/s to spare.
>
> The 220 will have more in spare.
>
> BUT...
>
> The 430 is more or less guaranteed to provide all the HD audio, when the
> 220 is a hit and miss.

ah, true, I forgot about that.

I wonder too about future PIP/PBP. from what I understand the dev's
would like to allow for having multiple streams decoded and displayed
at the same time, I wonder if the 430 will be powerful enough to
support this as well as the 220.


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Steve
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