On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 13:44 +0300, jori.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > is quite usable. Output is VGA (not DVI), but composite/s-video output > > > is crap (but who cares, if the goal is HDTV). Certainly does not > > > handle HDTV, but the newer could do that. > > > > Let's hope that David Airlie manages to get around > > implementing open source XvMC support for radeons. That would > > bring cpu usage for hdtv playback down a bit. > > Actually my opinion about XvMC is that you don't want to use that on > 1080i HDTV signal. This is because XvMC doesn't support deinterlacing > and you want deinterlaced signal, or you have combing in your picture. > I've tested this with Euro1080, Nvidia XvMC, DVI-out and Sony projector > on progressive frame format. Maybe Sony's deinterlacer could improve the > picture but due Nvidia driver timing problem I cannot confirm this. > > This because XvMC 'captures' MPEG data before it can be deinterlaced > by host CPU. And I am not aware of HW/GPU deinterlacers other than > Nvidia 6600/6800 with purevideo, but purevideo support is Windows only > AFAIK. Doesn't nvidia support simple bob and weave deinterlacers? -- Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@xxxxxxxxx>
