You're right. It uses something similar. Point being that it decodes in hw. On Feb 8, 2013 4:56 PM, "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Joel Longanecker wrote: > > The raspberry pi is basically built around a vdpau chip so that's why it >> can >> eat h.264 like a champ. >> > > Are you sure about that? The PI can in fact hardware-decode h.264, but I'm > not sure it's a vdpau thing. If it is, it's not the same as the good ol' > nVidia in my desktops - I was unable to get any vdpau stuff to work on my > PI. Basically I wasn't able to get mplayer to do anything decent on it, > which is why I have xbmc on it instead of mythtv. > > > > -- > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/f06b4be9/attachment.html>