Op Ma, 24 november, 2008 16:50, schreef VDR User: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Nicolas Huillard <nicolas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> It seems that things are really moving, and VDR-HD may finally work with >> cheap hardware by the time HD material is commonplace. > > You must live under a rock if HD content isn't already common where > you live/from your provider! Here is NA there's tons of HD channels, > with many more coming soon. Only, in the US most of the HDTV transports don't use H264. At least, I heard from several people that it's HDTV through MPEG2. Over here (Europe) it's mostly HDTV through H264 (only a very small number of MPEG2 HDTV channels over here). And H264 is the real problem over here and it all comes down to CPU decoding (FFMpeg or CoreAVC for Linux) or by using a device like the Reel HD Extension. Currently I need to use a Core 2 Quad (Q6600 @ 2.40GHz) to get decent and stutter-free H264 decoding using software (FFMpeg SVN, Xine-lib 1.2, Xine-UI and vdr-xine plugin). With my Core 2 Duo (E7300 @ 2.53Ghz) I didn't had enough juice (stuttering, framedrops, etc). That's why I do enjoy all this news about hardware accelerated H264 decoding on the GPU. Most of the motherboards have a GPU with this kind of features, to bad we can't use it in Linux/Xorg :( Regards, Niels Wagenaar _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
