I think the iPlayer app in MythTV or Boxee should let you watch using hardware acceleration.
--- On Mon, 10/1/11, Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk> wrote: > From: Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk> > Subject: RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos... > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Date: Monday, 10 January, 2011, 13:24 > > > It's proably the h264 decoder of the flash player, > it's quite > > buggy and a bit of a cpu hog, > > > > Good news is adobe are making it better all the time, > so a > > lot of the early buggyiness is gone, it's just the cpu > > > concerns that are about, > > Indeed, 10.2 is much better and regular 1080p plays at > 30fps thanks to the > NVidia ION GPU acceleration. (I've also tried both the 10.1 > beta and the > final release as bundled in Chrome). Unfortunately the > iPlayer web player > doesn't seem to be presenting the H.264 video in a manner > in which the ION > GPU acceleration can be enabled to accelerate the video > decoding, which > seems to be the problem here. (given YouTube works > perfectly playing 1080p > with GPU acceleration and the iPlayer's 720p overwhelms the > machine on > CPU-only decoding). > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
