[mythtv-users] Re: ATI GPU Transcoding...

[Chad]

On 11/2/05, Mike Frisch <mfrisch at isurfer.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:24:23PM +0100, Darksoul wrote:
> > As much as I would like to see intense transcoding and filtering support
> > provided by the GPU, most of those promises (also NVidia promised GPU-based
> > encoding) never turned out to be true :(
>
> Agreed.  We've been promised this (and hardware accelerated MPEG-2
> playback) for literally years by both ATI and nVidia.  Only nVidia has
> come through with the Xvmc support.
>

Shoddy, especially if you use a mainstream newer computer (after all,
64bit has grown amazingly rapidly, why can't nvidia actually keep up
with this growth), but still there ocasionally which is more than
others can say...

Cool