2009-03-18, 08:58
NuSkooler Wrote:I'm not sure if you're interested in "success stories", but to anyone interested/curious, I just upgraded my system and put the following "old" parts in a OrigenAE case with XBMC/MythTV using the XBMC from SVN (as of about a week ago) and the VDPAU stuff enabled:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+
2 GB RAM
eVGA GeForce 8800 GTX
All video content I have in my archives including 1080p rips play without any visible flaws whatsoever. A interesting note for all the Windows haters: The exact same hardware running Vista was NOT able to play 1080p content =)
Keep up the great work!
You probably didn't have codecs correctly installed in Vista because iirc the 8800GTX does *not* support VDPAU. Take a look at your CPU load next time you're on linux while watching a 1080p movie. If it's not below ~10% then I'm pretty sure you're not using the GPU. Moreover I believe motd2k put something into the code a week ago that automatically forces xbmc-vdpau to fall back to software rendering if an 8800GTX is detected.