Recommendations for HTPC's?

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mathias Picker
<Mathias.Picker at virtual-earth.de> wrote:
> I'm thinking about this, too, but have not yet bought / tried anything.
>
> But I will try intel ivy bridge graphics, the new kms infrastructure
> should enable smooth hd playback with a lot less power then nvidia. The
> vaapi driver landet oct 25 in ports:
> http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/libva-intel-driver and I would hope
> it actually works ;)
>
> I don't need this to be running right away, I could tolereate some
> tinkering. If you need rock-solid from the get go, nvidia is probably
> the way to go.
>
> Cheers, Mathias
>

VAAPI isn't anywhere near as well supported as vdpau, eg:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2012-October/085361.html
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2012-October/085366.html

Cheers

Tom