[vdr] HD clients for vdr

[Magnus Hörlin]

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> On 18/08/2009, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Magnus Hörlin wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Hi. My opinion is that nvidia's ION platform with vdpau and XBMC
> gives the best result. The atom's cpu load is <10% playing 1080p h264 so
> forget the 3GHz core2 unless you want to play Flash HD movies or other
> non-vdpau formats.
> >
> >
> > Isn't Flash HD content usually encoded in H.264? That's the case in
> >  youtube, at least, and the clips play fine using vdpau decoding in
> mplayer.
> >
> >
> >  > It's not very cheap yet but you can build a fanless one for €200. For
> example a http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1072 together with 2G ram and a
> pico-psu.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Anssi Hannula
> 
> What GPU does the nvidia ION A type board have? Wikipedia lists it as
> NVIDIA PureVideo HD. And if you look that up on wikipedia then it
> could be any of the GPUs
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Table_of_PureVideo_.28HD.29_
> GPUs
> 

It's a 9400.

> Ideally you would like to have the 9400/9500 type GPU that can do both
> h264 and VC1.
> 
> From what I could read about Flash HD, is that the limitation seems to
> be from the Adobe plugin (on windows) that does not do hardware
> acceleration for h264
> (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=135840). But if we
> use mplayer or Xine to, then it should in theory it should be able to
> do Flash HD?

Sorry, my mistake. I didn't know flash movies were h264. It's just a problem for the poor souls that are stuck with windows then.


> 
> What is your setup like? Do you use VDR as the main application or do
> you use something like XBMC with VDR or do you load a plugin on VDR to
> play flash type movies? Which output plugin do you guys use? I
> currently use xineliboutput 1.0.4. It does have its short comings but
> very good for Live TV.
> 

I have a vdr server that runs xineliboutput and streamdev, both from cvs. Then I use vdr-sxfe or xbmc on my diskless clients. Mostly vdr-sxfe for SD tv and xbmc for everything else.
/Magnus

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