2008-11-18, 06:25
freddyflinty Wrote:Just FYI -- I dual-boot my XBMC box (Nvidia 8400) to Vista (very rarely) and have the GPU decoding working fine for x264 mkv files. While 720p has worked just fine, it doesn't support any "scene" 1080p releases due to some of the encoding options used. So --- if during any testing of GPU decoding under linux some stuff doesn't play, it may be a limitation of the GPU and not the linux implementation.
Okay this confuses me... You have the GPU working in... Vista? I don't understand the importance of the dual boot here.
As for working or not working with specific encoding it's got nothing to do with the GPU ability and more to do with them not having encoded the acceleration for more than a small number of encoding profiles from what I gather. Are you trying to say that the GPU is incapable of doing more than these few and that it's not a coding limitation? I do not think that is accurate...