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  • #11
    Originally posted by bridgman View Post
    I think the question was why VDPAU over, say, VA-API which had been around longer and met the same needs. I agree that the combination of a spec *and* a readily available implementation would be the key.
    Consider the marketshare of VA-API enabled products vs the number of VDPAU enabled products in use out there.

    None of the supported intel VA-API chipsets have the capibility of handling highbit rate 1080p streams. Even the new GN40 is only good for to quote intel ?GN40 is designed to do 1080P HD playback for typical broadband internet content; it is not designed to enable full Blu-ray capability where the bitrates and demands of multi-layer content are significantly higher than that of internet HD content.? ( Heh, like there is a ton of 1080p broadband content, talk about catering to a non-existant market.) Which leaves us with the whooping S3 market (all 23 users :P) who's performance has yet to be really tested on more demanding streams. So what alternative chipsets that there is out there none of them are particularly appealing as they address an extremely small marketshare of current users compared to the number of nvidia vdpau capable users out there and the solution they offered was a complete package (good documentation, api, working implementation and drivers support).

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    • #12
      That VDR supports VDPAU news is well a bit misleading. I use VDPAU for DVB since the first xine-vdpau snapshot. There are different xine output plugins available for VDR and one of it required xine-lib 1.1 series and the other prefers xine-lib 1.2. For xine-lib 1.2 you find backport patches from the current xine-vdpau code. All you have to do was to compile the vdr plugin against the new xine code once and then use it. Problems with it are usally not fixed within VDR but inside xine-vdpau. You can use kaffeine too, which is also a great tool for watching dvb and h264 was even working with dvb-c long before VDR supported it. In case of kaffeine be sure you follow the readme of xine-vdpau which clearly states that kaffeine must be compiled with --without-xcb configure option. So both systems work, vdr+kaffeine. Just test it!

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