[mythtv-users] hardware considerations: fast CPU vs nvidia/vdpau?

[Christopher Kerr]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton at gmail.com>wrote:

> The quick answer is there is pros for both
> Ion pros
> Can be totally silent
> Low power usage even during playback
>
> I3 pros
> Not limited to hardware support of codecs (vdpau only supports a subset of
> h264)
> I3 more flexible platform for generic computing and transcoding jobs
>
> Hope that helps
> R
>

You missed nVidia's greatest advantage - the VDPAU Advanced deinterlacers
(and indeed, even the lesser Temporal 2x deinterlacer) are visibly better
than Yadif or Greedy.

- Chris
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