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nico at youplala

Mar 27, 2009, 8:11 AM

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VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks!

I bit the bullet.

I bought an Asus EN8400GS with passive cooling. I do not have 1080i
deinterlacing requirement yet, same for "HD sound". I'll buy a new card
when all that will be supported properly in hardware and software.

Those are Ł30 very well spent.

This is the best silent computing effort that can be made to a frontend.

Not only that, but the results are stellar!

I have added Jean-Yves' repo, upgraded, added the profile, tweaked the
mplayer conf file, and voila!

So, thanks to the devs for the VDPAU support, thanks to Jean-Yves for
his backport and repo.

Neat, very neat.

Nico
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Mar 28, 2009, 12:11 PM

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Re: VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks! [In reply to]

> From: Nicolas Will <nico [at] youplala>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks!
> To: mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 8:11 AM
> I bit the bullet.
...> I have added Jean-Yves' repo, upgraded, added the
> profile, tweaked the
> mplayer conf file, and voila!
>
> So, thanks to the devs for the VDPAU support, thanks to
> Jean-Yves for
> his backport and repo.
>
> Neat, very neat.
>

I would also like to thank Jean-Yves for his contribution. Made the move to VDPAU a breeze and rescued my master FE/BE from early retirement.

I already built a core 2 duo replacement for it, but the old P4 plays HD fine with VDPAU so I can't see replacing it... now to figure out what to do with the core 2.

btw, nice website Nico. I bookmarked it. Going to try your fix for zero byte files from second tuner now.
Been a problem every since I upgraded to 0.21.

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rcs at malibyte

Mar 28, 2009, 8:23 PM

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Re: VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks! [In reply to]

>> I bit the bullet.
>> I have added Jean-Yves' repo, upgraded, added the
>> profile, tweaked the mplayer conf file, and voila!
>>
>> So, thanks to the devs for the VDPAU support, thanks to
>> Jean-Yves for his backport and repo.
>>
>> Neat, very neat.
>>

> I would also like to thank Jean-Yves for his contribution. Made
> the move to VDPAU a breeze and rescued my master FE/BE from early
> retirement.
>
> I already built a core 2 duo replacement for it, but the old P4
> plays HD fine with VDPAU so I can't see replacing it... now to
> figure out what to do with the core 2.

Yeah, have to concur. I built a BE/FE around a Core 2 Quad 6600 and an
8600GT video card last year; wish I hadn't now - with VDPAU, watching HD
720p video files requires consistently *less than 1%* CPU utilization;
1080 only slightly more. This would have run just fine on the old
Athlon-64x2 system I upgraded from!

Thanks again to Jean-Yves for his efforts. Since I'm running on Ubuntu
8.10, getting this working was painless. All I need now is HD-PVR
support within Myth and all will be copacetic (yeah, I know - "0.22").

Thanks to all!
Bob

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raymond at wagnerrp

Mar 28, 2009, 9:09 PM

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Re: VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks! [In reply to]

Bob Sully wrote:
> Yeah, have to concur. I built a BE/FE around a Core 2 Quad 6600 and an
> 8600GT video card last year; wish I hadn't now - with VDPAU, watching HD
> 720p video files requires consistently *less than 1%* CPU utilization;
> 1080 only slightly more. This would have run just fine on the old
> Athlon-64x2 system I upgraded from!
Any AthX2 should have no problem with anything you record in the US, or
download online. The only thing that should give it trouble would be
(single sliced) HDPVR recordings, for which you would be using trunk
anyway and wouldn't need the backport, or high bitrate BluRay/HDDVD content.
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rcs at malibyte

Mar 29, 2009, 11:08 AM

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Re: VDPAU, it's something else! Thanks! [In reply to]

Raymond Wagner wrote:
> Bob Sully wrote:
>> Yeah, have to concur. I built a BE/FE around a Core 2 Quad 6600 and an
>> 8600GT video card last year; wish I hadn't now - with VDPAU, watching HD
>> 720p video files requires consistently *less than 1%* CPU utilization;
>> 1080 only slightly more. This would have run just fine on the old
>> Athlon-64x2 system I upgraded from!
> Any AthX2 should have no problem with anything you record in the US, or
> download online. The only thing that should give it trouble would be
> (single sliced) HDPVR recordings, for which you would be using trunk
> anyway and wouldn't need the backport, or high bitrate BluRay/HDDVD
> content.
>

That's right - it did not have any problems with HD (720p or 1080i)
recordings. It did have issues with mid-bit-rate .ts files from the
HD-PVR (recorded via the command-line) and some 1080p video files (this
is why I upgraded). I'll bet it would have handled both of these with
VDPAU.

No problem - as always with Linux, older hardware is still useful - it's
being retrained as an OpenVZ server container and storage server ;-)

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