[vdr] Replay Problems with Extension HD

[Lauri Tischler]

Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 08:18 -0700, VDR User wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Lauri Tischler<lwgt at iki.fi> wrote:
>>> Somewhat related question is, is there some solution to have
>>> HD-VDR without X, other than eHD ?
>> Not that I'm aware of but by no means have I researched that question
>> in depth. ;)
>>
>>> All this hullaballoo with vdpau/X/xine etc.. is somehow stupid
>>> if all you want is HD-STB.
>> I'm not sure why you think vdpau is stupid if you want an HD stb.
>> Using vdpau gives you the ability to have HD on systems that normally
>> wouldn't have a chance at all, and it provides this at a very lost
>> cost.  The cheapest I've paid so far is $20 ($30-$10 MIR) for an
>> 8400GS pci-e.  So for a mere $30 on average, your old system that
>> couldn't handle HD now can.  Stupid is the last thing I would describe
>> that as.
> 
> Hm, I'd be happy to pay $150-200 for a hardware output card, similar to
> the good old FF technotrend cards, if it could save me hours of messing
> around with SVN bleeding edge code and trying to run exotic deinterlace
> filters :)
> 
> I think that's what Lauri is getting at - the statement 'vdpau is
> stupid' is perhaps a little inflammatory, but there must be more
> time-efficient ways (other than the eHD card which is now hard to
> obtain)

I should have said 'needing X to run HD-VDR is stupid"..
I sure wish there was a NEXUS-FF-S2 card with HDMI 1080p output,
or similar, I dont like X and GUIs in general.
In old Byte Magazine guy named Steve Ciarcia said "the best compiler
is solder", still true.