[vdr] vdr Digest, Vol 161, Issue 4

[m***@gmx.net]

Am Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:00:01 +0000

- reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau.

MKV is just a container for data streams and support is wide-spread.
Any half-decent player supports mkv. It's also unrelated to
xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is
being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding
and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv. VDPAU is EOL.
Nvidia currently has NVDEC but I can't speak to how well it's
supported since I dumped VDPAU for VAAPI a while back.

- receiving 4K channels => for HD, I am using old PCI/PCIE motherboard + TBS6928 (with CI).
Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment?

When I switched from VDPAU to VAAPI I retired my old hardware and just
spent about $120 on an Intel NUC, and couldn't be happier. I'll never
bother with video cards again for htpc/media playing boxes. And also
non-usb tuners. Low power/low space is my theme now so my days of
building pc's for this purpose are over. You might want to look at
other options unless you actually want a pc tower.

you can have a look at the nvidia gt 1030 cards. there are lowprofile and fanless versions,
but pay attention to card size.
and you may need to install correct drivers manually.
but, half the price then an intel nuc with luck.

i'm considering this myself, too, instead of this buggy intel hd grahpics... (well, nvidia isn't better, i know...)

afaik, the gt 1030 is capable of playing 4k hdr h265 encoded videos, what is presumably what you need.
i've read about netfix 4k support, too.

[Jukka Tastula]

Post by m***@gmx.net
you can have a look at the nvidia gt 1030 cards. there are lowprofile and fanless versions,
but pay attention to card size. and you may need to install correct
drivers manually. but, half the price then an intel nuc with luck. i'm
considering this myself, too, instead of this buggy intel hd
grahpics... (well, nvidia isn't better, i know...) afaik, the gt 1030
is capable of playing 4k hdr h265 encoded videos, what is presumably
what you need. i've read about netfix 4k support, too.

Also one thing to look out for is that the 1030 actually comes in GDDR5
and DDR4 variants. They are priced very similarly, but performance of
DDR4 is absolute garbage compared to GDDR5!

I doubt this will have an effect when it comes to video decoding
capability, but paying about the same for half the performance doesn't
seem like a good idea to me.

[prelude]

Intel/VAAPI has been very smooth &
stable here. Not a single problem and no bugs that I've experienced.

As you have working system, could you also list HW what you use and
related SW's with version inffo's? This way we can go forward with this
question and hopefully avoid unfruitful conversations.