[mythtv-users] VDPAU can't decode ffmpeg MPEG-4?

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a non-lossless transcoder profile that uses the MPEG-4 video
> codec and the MP3 audio codec.  I use VDPAU Normal as my playback
> profile, on an ION system.  I just noticed from the logs that these
> files are resulting in software decoding.  This causes some stuttering
> on 1080i recordings.
>
> Is this expected?  Are there some options that I should or shouldn't
> use in that transcoder profile that would allow for hardware decoding?
>
> Jim

The MPEG-4 in question is MPEG-4 Part 2 ASP, of which common examples
are XViD/DiVX, not H.264.  So no ION box has hardware accel of these
codecs.  The VDPAU "C" cards like the GT2x0 series can, but not an
ION.

Robert