[mythtv-users] VAAPI on mythtv-0.26
Robert Dege
livemotion at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 15:49:54 UTC 2013
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> is there a list of processors that work with VAAPI and "should" be
>> fast enough for typical MythTV use?
>>
>
> Any Sandy or Ivy Bridge processor should work (the specs should say it has
> INTEL HD graphics built in). I am using a Sandy Bridge Celeron G540 (just
> about the slowest sandy bridge processor you can buy today) and it was
> powerful enough for CPU playback... but VAAPI freed up the CPU for
> comflagging and whatnot.
>
> In reality, if you have any sort of GPU acceleration (VAAPI, VDPAU, etc)
> there isn't an x86 processor made today that is NOT fast enough. Mythtv
> doesn't use that much CPU unless your doing post processing (commflag,
> transcode, etc).
>
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My old system was an Athlon64 X2 4400 w/2GB RAM, using a GeForce GT 430
(PCI). I was able to watch HD shows with a decent amount of CPU to spare.
In fact, my biggest issue was disk I/O, since I was trying to record
multiple shows on disks connected via SATA1
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