CoreVideo - 1080i - Powerbooks

[agentdavo]

Greetings,

My first post! Hi all!

Well, will CoreVideo allow faster mpeg-2 decoding for 1080i hdtv transport streams? I see that VLC and it's opengl support has come a long way in the last few months... i get a 5fps+ fps now!

In Windoze, mpeg-2 decoders that use DXVA makes a huge difference to CPU % such as Elecard/WinDVD decoders. Will CoreVideo work in a similar way?

Any thoughts on MPEG-2 decoders, pixel/vertex shaders and CoreVideo would be appreciated.

 

[live4ever]

Absolutely, once the graphics card gets involved HD content will play back like DVDs. It was the hardware acceleration that allowed viewing of DVDs in the slower G3s. VLC uses the CPU @ 100% whenever I play HD video on my Powerbook.