CR wrote:
I say if you have an AGP/PCI system, consider the nVidia MX4000. I haven't used it myself with VDR but it supports XvMC (MPEG2 decode) and it's passively cooled. How good is the hardware de-interlacer? That is unknown to me, maybe someone else can comment.
It's worth to check Wikipedia about various chipset generations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Graphics_chipsets
I have in my desktop computer a 7600GS (with a nasty small heatsink and fan), the passive cooled version (Asus, etc.) would be quite suitable for a HTPC. It has quite good 3D gaming performance as well.
I wish nvidia released Linux support for MPEG-4 HW decoding for pure video chipsets (6xxx and 7xxx).
How do you enable the de-interlacer seppo?
In xine + vdr plugin
xine --no-splash --hide-gui --fullscreen -Dtvtime:method=use_vo_driver -V xxmc -A alsa vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes
or xine + xinelibout
xine --no-splash --hide-gui --fullscreen -Dtvtime:method=use_vo_driver -V xxmc -A alsa "xvdr://127.0.0.1#nocache;demux:mpeg_block"
In vdr-sxfe
vdr-sxfe xvdr://192.168.1.4 --lirc --audio alsa --video xxmc --fullscreen --post tvtime:method=use_vo_driver
But I have some problems with sxfe, the nvidia OSD color hack (video.device.xvmc_nvidia_color_fix:1) is not available. Also the playback is not smooth when OSD graphics is active. Perhaps the sudo+renice -18 trick from this mailing list today could help.
What version of xine-lib and X.Org do you use?
At the moment fresh CVS, X.org 7.0 and latest (8774) nvidia binary drivers.
BR, Seppo