<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">> I have a new machine at home with an ATI graphic card ; I will try<br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">> testing this VDPAU things cool and see what I come up with.<br>> <br>> JY<br><br>I believe MythTV sends video to the VDPAU API which in turn sends it to the nvidia proprietary driver which sends it to the hardware video decoder on a recent nvidia card.<br><br>Playing video using an AMD/ATI card's hardware decoder requires you to use AMD's XvBA API and AMD's proprietary driver, either directly or through the VA API --> XvBA backend.<br><br>I just bought a Zotac ZBOX AD02 with an AMD E-350 processor, so I'll be playing with the AMD side of things myself shortly. I don't believe
there's any way to use the hardware video decoder on an AMD card through VDPAU. I would be happy to be wrong about this.<br><br>There's a patch ( http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8593 ) adding VA API support to MythTV which would give AMD users hardware video decoding but I think wasn't added due to immature drivers and general bugginess.<br></div></div></div></body></html>