On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 08:18 -0700, VDR User wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Lauri Tischler<lwgt@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Somewhat related question is, is there some solution to have > > HD-VDR without X, other than eHD ? > > Not that I'm aware of but by no means have I researched that question > in depth. ;) > > > All this hullaballoo with vdpau/X/xine etc.. is somehow stupid > > if all you want is HD-STB. > > I'm not sure why you think vdpau is stupid if you want an HD stb. > Using vdpau gives you the ability to have HD on systems that normally > wouldn't have a chance at all, and it provides this at a very lost > cost. The cheapest I've paid so far is $20 ($30-$10 MIR) for an > 8400GS pci-e. So for a mere $30 on average, your old system that > couldn't handle HD now can. Stupid is the last thing I would describe > that as. Hm, I'd be happy to pay $150-200 for a hardware output card, similar to the good old FF technotrend cards, if it could save me hours of messing around with SVN bleeding edge code and trying to run exotic deinterlace filters :) I think that's what Lauri is getting at - the statement 'vdpau is stupid' is perhaps a little inflammatory, but there must be more time-efficient ways (other than the eHD card which is now hard to obtain) gdh _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
