Originally posted by bridgman
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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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