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.
I also would like to remind the framerate issues. Naturally you decide what is enough precision and quality for you.
Computer hardware usually cannot provide 50.000Hz, 59.940Hz or 23.976Hz outputs to your TV/Monitor. This will cause some judder on display output as MPEG/AVC input-stream is not synchronized to output framerate.
do you mean that all nvidia vdpau cards with existing drivers from Nvidia can't provide exact 50.000Hz, 59.940Hz or 23.976Hz ??
Goga