[mythtv-users] VDPAU woos

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 15 17:50:17 UTC 2010


Frank Merrill <fmerrill1 at gmail.com> writes:

> If I remember correctly, Nvidia recently stated that VDPAU now
> requires 512MB of video memory to work properly, and I have also seen
> recent posts from others saying that anything above that doesn't seem
> to be needed for any current VDPAU functionality. So it would seem
> that 512MB is both the minimum and maximum actually required, although
> having 1GB wouldn't hurt anything, it may just not all get used.

For what it's worth my Revo 1600 (with 1GB RAM) is configured with
256MB of video RAM (the max the BIOS would let me set) and VDPAU seems
to work just fine with all my content, both 720p and 1080i.

-derek

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