[vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video & audio, etc.

[Niko Mikkilä]

Hi Paul,

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:13 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

> is there really no recommendation for a board not using Nvidia graphics
> components? It would really be great to not depend on proprietary
> drivers.

Hardware decoding through VA-API is working on some Intel chipsets and
CPUs, but I haven't seen any usable GPU deinterlacing implementations
besides those in Nvidia's VDPAU.

AMD's XvBA is closed and still too buggy to be used in practice. I
haven't heard much about S3/VIA. Broadcom CrystalHD has open-source
drivers, but it also doesn't deinterlace anything.

This page list all VA-API compatible hardware solutions:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi


So, basically it's either Intel or Broadcom CrystalHD with open-source
drivers or Nvidia with closed ones. Only Nvidia and CrystalHD hardware
decoding is usable on Atom-based motherboards. For the Intel way, you'd
need to step up to something based on GM45 or Core i3 and forget about
fancy 1080i deinterlacing and other postprocessing.

--

Niko