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2009-08-14, 15:25
Hello, i'm using the latest SVN build on XBMCLive. I've noticed that VDPAU is only working when i play mkv files, is this normal? why can't i use it whith other filetypes?
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mkv is a container, it has nothing to do with it, demuxing still happens on the CPU. The supported codecs are listed on the wikipedia article for VDPAU. Something along the lines of mpeg1/2, h264, vc1 and wmv3/9. Theres no sense decoding xvid et. al. in HW, it's too easy for the CPU to do.
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thanks for repling althekiller, i know that mkv it's just a container, but i also have 720p Xvid AVI files and they do not decode using VDPAU...
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Is there even hardware support for decoding xvid on gpu? Don't think so.
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Seeing as how my atom n230 decodes xvid with ac3 at 7% cpu, spending the time, money and resources to implement an xvid decoder in HW seems pretty cost prohibitive from a GPU vendor's standpoint.