This is a reply to moderator shut down of a GPU acceleration thread...
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=41530&page=3
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You shut down a good discussion on why GPU acceleration is important. Your reasoning is that the original post (GPU assisted ffmpeg decoder) was no longer being discussed.
But it was...
Perhaps you should consider that good conversations evolve. While there was a touch of philosophy in the posts, there was also technical discussion related to GPU acceleration via different methods. Other than 2 users ranting about 'no gpu acceleration', all other pro-GPU acceleration posts discussed DXVA, Open CL and other render methods while touching on environmental benefits of energy savings.
Perhaps I'm being oversensitive but there seems to be this fanatical opposition to GPU acceleration by some members. Is it because they can't code it or simply have this puritanical insistence on all code being cross platform?
My two cents say that neither reason for blocking GPU acceleration is adequate given the benefits that could be made available to users by enabling GPU acceleration. Insisting on CPU upgrades for better software decode is bass ackwards...that's the Microsoft/Intel/CE industry way.
The Linux/OpenSource/XBMC/Nirvana way should be all about harmony between software and hardware...and saving little kiddies in China from E-trash caused by too-early functional obsolescence, coral reefs from global warming, and your hdd from high case temps caused by inefficient software decoding.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=41530&page=3
<Begin>
You shut down a good discussion on why GPU acceleration is important. Your reasoning is that the original post (GPU assisted ffmpeg decoder) was no longer being discussed.
But it was...
Perhaps you should consider that good conversations evolve. While there was a touch of philosophy in the posts, there was also technical discussion related to GPU acceleration via different methods. Other than 2 users ranting about 'no gpu acceleration', all other pro-GPU acceleration posts discussed DXVA, Open CL and other render methods while touching on environmental benefits of energy savings.
Perhaps I'm being oversensitive but there seems to be this fanatical opposition to GPU acceleration by some members. Is it because they can't code it or simply have this puritanical insistence on all code being cross platform?
My two cents say that neither reason for blocking GPU acceleration is adequate given the benefits that could be made available to users by enabling GPU acceleration. Insisting on CPU upgrades for better software decode is bass ackwards...that's the Microsoft/Intel/CE industry way.
The Linux/OpenSource/XBMC/Nirvana way should be all about harmony between software and hardware...and saving little kiddies in China from E-trash caused by too-early functional obsolescence, coral reefs from global warming, and your hdd from high case temps caused by inefficient software decoding.
