<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Bill Williamson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@bbqninja.com">bill@bbqninja.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>I'm asking which amd processor would I need in order to safely do VC-1 in software... I currently run dual core 4400+, which i KNOW is not enough. I also have AM2 motherboards, not AM2+, hence the specification in the question. I cannot buy an AM3 or a core2 chip and put it in my AM2 motherboard, so it's really irrelivant what AM2+/3 or core2 chip can do it :)</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br><br>I'm using an X2 6000+. It has been able to decode the VC-1 I have tried, at about 15Mbps. It was 720p, but I was using about 40% CPU, so it should be able to handle 1080p. If I were to buy a CPU myself for software decode right now, I'd probably go a step or two higher for VC-1, just to be sure. I use h264 for all my stuff, so I haven't worked with a lot of VC-1. I can tell you that CPU can decode h264 1080p up to about 15Mbps. I haven't tried much higher bitrates. VDPAU has also worked for h264 for me. I had a crash with VC-1, but it could have been a lot of things so I'm not blaming VDPAU at the moment. I haven't had time to diagnose it and it's low priority for me as I just don't use VC-1 much. <br>
<br>With the way VDPAU is progressing, I would wait and buy a card that can do it later. NVidia has to be working on some new cards that will have a newer GPU that can do the deinterlacing better and have VC-1. If you're going to upgrade the system, get a motherboard that has the 8xxx or 9xxx chipset. My 8300 works great and it does have VDPAU. Not sure on deinterlacing, I have only used progressive content with VDPAU at this point. <br>
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