[mythtv-users] Vaapi use on Sandy Bridge

[Yeechang Lee]

Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> says:
> If you're only running 15% CPU running the software decoders, why even 
> bother with hardware decoding?  In any case, you should be running the 
> OpenGL renderer rather than XVideo if at all possible.

I know that part of the argument for having a powerful frontend is to
have the ability to use software decoding regardless of VDPAU. Isn't
VDPAU's deinterlacing and rendering superior to OpenGL or any other
software method, though?

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