On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Kevin Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dabears_rule@yahoo.com">dabears_rule@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi All:<br><br>I understand how vdpau reduces cpu usage and that it will allow playing h.264 videos and such.<br>However, I am wondering if there is any real advantage to "upgrading" if all you do is watch ota hdtv and xvid movies? Will vdpau actually improve the picture quality? Will using a playback profile that utilizes vdpau produce a better picture than the same playback profile that does not use vdpau?<br>
<br></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br>vdpau provides by far the best picture quality available for SD or HD currently. There is just no comparison at all. Under 0.21 or 0.22 they difference is just like night & day...and with further improvements and features in later nVidia drivers the quality will improve further.<br>
<br>Believe me my family and friends are incredibly intolerant of less than perfect picture quality and they have time and again been unable to determine whether they are watching a STB (with HDMI output on SD & HD content) and MythTV from an Ion based MythTv box.<br>
<br>Believe me you will not be disappointed :-)<br><br>Andrew<br>