[mythtv-users] Modern ION replacement?

[Preston Crow]

On 05/12/14 14:04, Will Dormann wrote:
>
> On May 12, 2014 1:43 PM, "Jim Oltman" <jim.oltman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.oltman at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > May I ask why nVidia is a requirement?  Why not a lower power Intel NUC?
>
> It's my understanding that vdpau still can't be beat.  My poor little 
> atom has been happily handling HD h.264 for years without breaking a 
> sweat.  And that's because the gpu is doing the heavy lifting.
>
> Based on other threads,  alternatives like Intel graphics can be 
> coerced. into working,  but you still may end up with artifacts like 
> tearing or dropped frames that are most noticeable in scenes with 
> horizontal panning.  Which is unacceptable for me.  Working with video 
> over the years has tuned my vision to be very aware of these things.  :-/
>
> Is this still the case,  or have other technologies caught up with vdpau?
>
There have been a lot of discussions on this very topic in other threads 
as of late.

A lot of the talk is about which deinterlacing algorithms you can use.  
Someone expressed concern about decoding more complex audio streams on 
low-power CPUs.

What I haven't heard about is the ability to play back interlaced 
output.  I have an old CRT HDTV that needs a real 1080i input.  Can 
Intel graphics generate a 1080i signal that is properly synced to the video?
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