[mythtvnz] State of h264 decoding

[Bernard Mentink]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the update, much appreciated  .. [?]

Let's hope there is some news out of Intel at the LCA ..

Cheers,
Bernie

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz> wrote:

>
> 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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