<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 02/21/2007 05:49 PM, Martin Long wrote:<br>> Number of shaders, vectors, etc is all to do with 3D rendering, and it aint<br>> gonna help much with 1080 decoding. In fact, most of the value of this card<br>> is in it's 3D capabilities, and you'll probably find most cards supporting
<br>> XvMC will have similar capabilities. The key is to make sure it will support<br>> both MC and iDCT to take full advantage of the decoding, and check it's<br>> fully supported by myth.<br><br>NVIDIA's XvMC doesn't (and probably won't ever) support
H.264 decode<br>assist... Instead, they'll probably go the PureVideo approach (which<br>uses programmable pixel shaders).<br></blockquote></div><br>So, is anyone working one something like this yet?<br>-- <br>Micah