[mythtvnz] State of h264 decoding

[Steven Ellis]

On 4/01/2009, at 6:55 PM, Bernard Mentink wrote:

> Ok, we are getting off the topic here, I repeat my questions are:
>
> 1. Status of hardware support for G45

Not there yet.. Might be some news at LCA this week as there are a  
couple of Intel presenters.

The initial Intel HW support in xorg is for support other than H.264  
video

>
> 2. What is the stability state for h264 decoding.

About the same. Some recent patches to ffmpeg i've not had a chance to  
try yet.

>
>
> I am not interested in an nvidia card .... please direct responses  
> to the topic.

Sadly some people are following the general theme of the subject  
rather than the content of your posting.

Steve


>
>
> Cheers,
> Bernie
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Richard (lists)  
> <rich_lists at richms.com> wrote:
> The 8400GS is hardly noisy or hot, and at least in windows does a  
> great job of playing all the freeview HD channels and even bluray,  
> so I would expect similar once the access to the GPU is sorted from  
> myth.
>
>
> Its available in a passive Heatsink even, so its TDP must be pretty  
> low. Standalone boxes manage h.264 without even heatsinks on chips  
> so there is no reason for a decoder to be hot and noisy.
>
>
>
> From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz [mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz 
> ] On Behalf Of Bernard Mentink
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:06 PM
> To: MythTV in NZ
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] State of h264 decoding
>
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Yes realize that, but my question is about the G45 chipset, I don't  
> want to put a noisy hot nvidia card in my machine, especially as the  
> G45 is more than adequate. Their was talk of G45 support in the  
> 2.6.28 kernel hence my question?
>
> Until that happens, I would like to know if others have stability  
> problems with the software decoding libs ..
>
>
>
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Steven Ellis - Technical Director
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