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.
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Niko