[mythtv-users] Zotac ID80 w/ Nvidia GT 520M

[Mark Lord]

On 12-03-14 11:40 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 15 March 2012 14:36, Andrew McCauley <ajmccauley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920x1080): 76 fields/s
>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 67 fields/s
>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 85 fields/s
>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 222 fields/s
>> MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + HQSCALING (720x576 video to 1920x1080
>> display): 145 fields/s
> 
> I wonder if this is more related to more recent nvidia drivers...
> 
> Because that's about 10 frames/s better for the GT430 than what I do
> here with drivers 276

The Zotac ZBOX HD-ID41 I have here (Ion2) outperforms the fanless ASUS GT430 card
that I wasted $70 on recently.   The ZBOX plays 1920x1080i at Advanced/2X nice
and smoothly, whereas the GT430 card is jerky like crazy.  Drove me nuts!

Here's the qvdpautest data I captured a while ago on the ZBOX:

qvdpautest 0.5
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510   @ 1.66GHz
NVIDIA GPU ION (GT218) at PCI:3:0:0 (GPU-0)

VDPAU API version : 1
VDPAU implementation : NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  260.19.21  Thu Nov  4 21:46:12 PDT 2010

SURFACE GET BITS: 193.065 M/s
SURFACE PUT BITS: 161.835 M/s

MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 72 frames/s
MPEG DECODING (1280x720): 141 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1920x1080): 66 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1280x720): 122 frames/s
VC1 DECODING (1440x1080): 83 frames/s
MPEG4 DECODING (1920x1080): 71 frames/s

MIXER WEAVE (1920x1080): 484 frames/s
MIXER BOB (1920x1080): 675 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL (1920x1080): 191 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 122 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 255 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920x1080): 65 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 53 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 72 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 230 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + HQSCALING (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 121 fields/s

MULTITHREADED MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 70 frames/s
MULTITHREADED MIXER TEMPORAL (1920x1080): 163 fields/s