[mythtv-users] AMD GPUs / Openelec

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Mar 7 18:13:02 UTC 2013


On 3/7/2013 11:18, Joseph Fry wrote:
> Looking at the forums on Openelec, it appears that they do support AMD
> GPU's, however there are some pretty serious caveats.  No MPEG2/4
> acceleration,  only PCM over HDMI.  So essentially, if your content is
> limited to h264 and you don't want HD audio, I guess you would be ok.

If your content is h264, you either need a beefy CPU, or MPEG4 
acceleration. In other words, an Atom or E-series CPU would not be 
suitable for use.


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