[mythtvnz] Fwd: [mythtv] New Video Decode and Presentation API

[Paul Kendall]

On Sunday 16 November 2008 16:27:12 Steven Ellis wrote:
> On 15/11/2008, at 10:16 AM, Steven Ellis wrote:
> > On 15/11/2008, at 10:05 AM, Hadley Rich wrote:
> >> Thought the list may be interested in this;
> >
> > Wow.. Almost fell off my chair.
> >
> > Sadly only 8 + 9 series chips for now, but it is a real start, and
> > about time too.
> >
> > Just shows what reaction ATI/AMD and Intel's recent similar
> > announcements can cause.
>
> Not a lot of traffic about this on the MythTV-dev list yet, but a
> couple of other sites have picked up on it.
>
> I've put the announcement up at mythtv.co.nz and phoronix have already
> benchmarked the code -
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau&num=1
>
> Most of the discussions are currently on NVNews forums
>
>      * http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
>
> Still a bit early, but appears to be excellent news for HTPC and
> MythTV users.
>
> So does anyone on list have a card they can do some testing against. I
> don't have anything with 8xxx or 9xxx generation HW at present.
>
I don't either, but I am interested to hear how it goes for our DVB-T h.264 
streams.
If it works out well, I am willing to put the patches into my PPA build.
Hopefully that'll motivate someone to try it out and send results to the list.   
:-)
> Steve

Paul