[darkham]

what's the future for ati owners?

[theuni]

darkham: please try to avoid thread hijacking.

VDPAU is currently for nvidia cards only. Please search.

TheUni

[marcuszurhorst]

Good morning:
One question from my side would go into the following direction:
"which content is accelerated, and which is not?" Or: "Is only the UI not accelerated?"

This is not 100% clear to me, and it is an interesting point when someone is gonna spend some money on new hardware. Do these ones need to invest into a "bigger" CPU or is a small Celeron (less power consumption and probably less noisy system) sufficient in the long run.

When I read this thread here, there are 2 different statements in these few posts, so there's obviously some room for clarification, not?


Regards,
Marcus

[Haggy]

Good morning:
One question from my side would go into the following direction:
"which content is accelerated, and which is not?" Or: "Is only the UI not accelerated?"

atm everything vdpau-aware in ffmpeg is handled by vdpau, EXCEPT mpeg2 due to limitations with subtitle overlay for DVDs, which is MPEG2. but in turn, that's not a real problem since even an old P3 could handle DVDs just fine.

The UI is accelerated by OpenGL, which has nothing to do with VDPAU.

[dtviewer]

atm everything vdpau-aware in ffmpeg is handled by vdpau, EXCEPT mpeg2 due to limitations with subtitle overlay for DVDs, which is MPEG2. but in turn, that's not a real problem since even an old P3 could handle DVDs just fine.

The UI is accelerated by OpenGL, which has nothing to do with VDPAU.

Thanks for the clarification Haggy.

In your opinion, is a Celeron with a nvidia 9500 good enough for a 'snappy' xbmc. Not talking about video playback, just the user experiance in general.

Or would you suggest going with a low power dual core.

[User 34959]

atm everything vdpau-aware in ffmpeg is handled by vdpau, EXCEPT mpeg2 due to limitations with subtitle overlay for DVDs, which is MPEG2. but in turn, that's not a real problem since even an old P3 could handle DVDs just fine.

The UI is accelerated by OpenGL, which has nothing to do with VDPAU.

Would be nice to see though how good vpdau deinterlacer is.

[Haggy]

Celeron ranges from here to there. There are tons of 'em on the market. Crappy ones and even c2d based ones. But generally it is more than enough if you rely on the gpu for video decoding. that 9500 has also more than enough power for everything. a small singlecore sempron or celeron together with 1-2 gb ram will do fine. if you only intend to use that machine as htpc, a 9400 is also fine - and cheaper, cooler and less powerdraining.

[Haggy]

Would be nice to see though how good vpdau deinterlacer is.

according to #xbmc-linux way better than what xbmc has to offer now