[Open-graphics] Nvidia has 100% decode of h.264

[Tim Schmidt]

On 4/29/07, Dieter <netbsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
> "H.264 offload is absolutely necessary for good Blu-ray/HD-DVD playback."

Exactly the situation when DVD on the PC premiered circa 1998.  Now,
10 years later, $60 motherboards that integrate graphics, audio,
networking, all the regular motherboard stuff, and a CPU - again, for
$60 - can decode a DVD in software without so much as a single dropped
frame.  Anything more expensive does it with single digit CPU load.
Hardware h.264 acceleration is an early-adopter problem.

--tim