[vdr] HD clients for vdr

[VDR User]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Torgeir Veimo<torgeir at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Ideally you would like to have the 9400/9500 type GPU that can do both
>> h264 and VC1.
>
> Initially you might think you do, since you'd like to playback bluray
> material in the future. But in fact, most of the time you'd be
> displaying h.264 from HDTV transmissions, and deinterlacing it, if
> it's 1080i. Not all the different GPUs can do the advanced (temporal)
> deinterlacing for 1080i material.
>
> In most cases, a 9500gt is the better choice, since it can do just
> that, even though it doesn't support VC-1 decoding in hardware, while
> a 8400gs can do that, but not deinterlace it.
>
> For a more thorough answer, have a look at the mythtv mailing lists.

That's all and well but you should be slapped for that last sentence.