NVIDIA VDPAU now working under MythTV

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Dec 01

NVIDIA VDPAU now working under MythTV

For those of you out there with PureVideo enabled Nvidia video cards, you will be happy to know that MythTV now has direct support for the new VDPAU API supplied with the Nvidia binary drivers. Well what does this mean you may ask. Well a great deal, you should now be able to watch 1080p HD content with ease since most of the decoding work will be done by the GPU.

Lets all just hope that AMD will supply details of their AMDXvBA library shortly so the same thing can be achieved for us AMD users out there.

4 comments

§ Tony McConnell said on : 02/01/09 @ 09:58

Happy new year :)

Have you had any luck with the ATI HD3200 and the latest radeonhd git pull that added xv support?
§ admin® said on : 02/01/09 @ 12:11

Happy new year :)

Have you had any luck with the ATI HD3200 and the latest radeonhd git pull that added xv support?

A happy new year to you too. I believe XV/3d support for r6xx and r7xx GPU's (HD3200 is an r6xx GPU) is in a different git branch than master, so if you are using master you still wont get XV support for your HD3200. You will need to check out the r6xx-r7xx-support branch. I haven't tried it myself yet as I am waiting for the code to stabilize and to be integrated into master.

Good luck.
§ Tony McConnell said on : 03/01/09 @ 13:25
I'll give it a go, sometime today hopefully.

BTW, the HD 3200 is an RS780 ASIC.

http://developer.amd.com/drivers/pc_vendor_id/Pages/default.aspx
§ admin® said on : 03/01/09 @ 16:41

BTW, the HD 3200 is an RS780 ASIC.

Indeed it is, and the RS780 is from the r6xx family. Confusing I know