Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-07 Thread Ondrej Wisniewski
Ondrej Wisniewski wrote: This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features MPEG2/4 hardware decoding. It has DVI and Y/Pb/Pr video output as well as analog and SPDIF audio (coaxial and optical). So that's everything we need, isn't it. Well, looks like the people who pointed out that this

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-07 Thread Petri Helin
Ondrej Wisniewski wrote: Remains to be seen if VIA (or some other manufacturer) comes up with a small, low power consumption MB with h.264 hw decoding or if we see a FF DVB-S2 card before that. In the meantime there is no hurry, I'm happy with the current VDR :-) Intel should be doing

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-07 Thread lucian orasanu
for hdtv - no. I don't see the h.264 hardware decoding. mpeg4 is not h.264. Igor What is H.264? H.264 is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. H.264 can match the best possible MPEG-2 quality at up to half the data rate. H.264

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 06 Feb 2008, Ondrej Wisniewski wrote: With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look very promising at the moment.

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 09:58 +, Laz a écrit : I don't think MPEG4 decoding will be supported in this way for a very long time, unless Via have changed their attitudes. (Not really bothered looking into this because HD is years off in the UK where I am, unless you fork out lots

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread JJussi
On Wednesday, 6. Februaryta 2008 13:40:36 Tony Grant wrote: HD needs to be shown at sizes where the extra pixels are worth our while I don't have 3000€ to put into a screen. But some of us do! ;-) -- JJussi ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ondrej Wisniewski may or may not have written... With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. MPEG-4 (or, more specifically, H.264) != HDTV. Sooner or later, it'll be used for 576p or

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 17:29 +0200, JJussi a écrit : HD needs to be shown at sizes where the extra pixels are worth our while I don't have 3000€ to put into a screen. But some of us do! ;-) I would probably spend a lot more time - enough to justify the cost - in front of TV if I

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Darren Salt a écrit : MPEG-4 (or, more specifically, H.264) != HDTV. Sooner or later, it'll be used for 576p or 576i, if it's not being used for that already somewhere. You are right. In France, pay-TV channels (SD) on DVB-T are encoded in MPEG-4 since 2005. Jean-Claude

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Anssi Hannula
Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Ondrej Wisniewski may or may not have written... With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. MPEG-4 (or, more specifically, H.264) != HDTV. Sooner or later,

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look very promising at the moment. So I was