[mythtv-users] vdpau and MythMusic visualisations

[Erik Hovland]

> Does that mean that the visualisations are renderer limited rather than
> CPU limited? I was of the impression that the OpenGL aspects of the GPU
> helped but a fair amount of CPU was also involved hence my questioning the
> performance of a single core Atom.
>
> Payday next week so I need to know whether I order the Zotac or not!!

VDPAU and OpenGL are two different APIs for the same GPU. The Zotac board
has an NVIDIA GPU that accelerates both 3d (w/ OpenGL) and video (w/ VDPAU).

The VIA board that the other poster talked about does not have reasonable 3D
acceleration.

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