[mythtv-users] Nvidia CUDA / HD decoding

[Mark Kendall]

On 2/19/07, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:>
> Mike, all, thank you for the info in this thread. Always an education..
>
> However, if I understand it correctly:
>
> 1. Hardware accel for H.264/MPEG4 is available via OpenGL

Yes - but only to the same extent that h.264 decoding is available via
the CPU ie someone has to write the code (not a Sunday night job...)

> 2. Vendor must support it

Yes - but at least opengl is a standard

> 3. SW Devs must drive/render to it. (not sure about this one)
>
> Assuming the first two, how would it present itself in Myth? As an
> alternate to XvMC? This might be a better question for the devs, but
> how far away would something like that be?

my guess - a fair way off.

Mark