Niels Wagenaar wrote:
-----Original message----- From: Torgeir Veimo torgeir@pobox.com Sent: Mon 01-12-2008 12:58 To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org; Subject: Re: [vdr] MythTV Adds Support For NVIDIA VDPAU
On 1 Dec 2008, at 21:49, Magnus Hörlin wrote:
I have introduced VDR to at least 20 people (mostly windows-users) over the years, but this may be the day it ends.
It appears you think that VDR will never get a plugin that can utilise the VDPAU (or similar) api?
Why should it depend on VDR or its plugins? The only reason when VDPAU would be used, is in combination with software based device output plugins like the xine & xineliboutput. As soon as Xine supports VDPAU, then the VDR plugins *should* support it as well.
For other (read: hardware) output devices, VDPAU isn't used at all.
And from my point of view, MythTV is still not as accesible compared too for instance Mediaportal or Microsoft MCE. IMHO, the best combo is still VDR for DVB viewing in combination with XBMC for multimedia viewing. But then again, this is my oppinion :-)
Regards,
Niels Wagenaar
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Yes, I've heard som nice things about XBMC lately so maybe I'll check it out. My second look at Myth didn't impress me more than it did five years ago. I think I'll stick to VDR awhile longer mostly since I know it in and out, and that I think highly of Klaus. Installing Myth was the same as it was last time and I couldn't even get it to lock with my multiproto drivers. I had hoped that Myth had more documentation by now and that it would be a lot easier to install, but I guess I was wrong. I couldn't find anything that matches Reinhard's Howto's for instance. It seems most Myth users install distro packages, but I prefer compiling "bleeding edge" myself. And that's what it takes to get VDPAU running. I don't have time for this right now so I'll just wait for Christmas and hope that by then I can have VDR with native .ts, h.264 and S2API (although I fully understand that Klaus has issues with it!) and xine with VDPAU. And maybe XBMC together with some trick lirc-controlled scripts to switch between that and VDR. If not, maybe I'll have another go at Myth. But I hope I won't have to... /Magnus H