[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun - Comcast shut off clear QAM

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/12/2013 09:57 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> From: "Michael T. Dean"
>> Then again, I believe that a mythfrontend system should have the CPU
>> required to decode the video it's being asked to play--but it seems
>> plenty of people are content with frontends that are completely reliant
>> on VDPAU,
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, Mike, but what's that thing inside the
> video card?  :-)  Are you actually suggesting that you care which card
> the processor chip is mounted on?
>

Not when VDPAU works, but since it doesn't always***, I still want to be 
able to watch what I want to watch, rather than what nvidia can handle.

And that's the whole point--if all your eggs are in one basket, then 
you're limited to what the basket-maker (nvidia, Google/Android, 
Apple/iOS, app makers, ...) decide to let you do. I'm really surprised 
how many, "The cable company should let me use the content the way I 
want," people on this list have no problems trusting nvidia or Google or 
Apple or ... to allow them to do the things they want to do.

Mike

*** Not only things like YouTube and other Flash stuff (and possibly 
more content people may have/want to use), but also even some broadcast 
MPEG-2 content (such as that from my NBC affiliate, received OTA--where 
VDPAU decode gives frequent (several per minute) bursts of blockiness 
and pixelization, but software decode (with VDPAU display) doesn't).