[fidoboy]

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?

regards,

[althekiller]

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.

[fidoboy]

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...

[xbs08]

Theres no sense decoding xvid et. al. in HW, it's too easy for the CPU to do.

Did you read this?

[tslayer]

Is there even hardware support for decoding xvid on gpu? Don't think so.

[>>X<<]

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...

Codecs with VDPAU offloading to GPU

MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), VC-1, WMV3, WMV9

Do you see Xvid listed there

[althekiller]

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.