Graphics card

[Dan Ritter]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:45:25PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> On a related note, is there a AGP based graphics card that can  
> accelerate HDTV video?  i.e.  I have 1440x1080 videos that I want to  
> display on a 1024x768 projector using mplayer.  Is there anything out  
> there that can display the video without dropping frames and losing  
> sync with the audio?  I have a Shuttle XPC (SN41G2) so unfortunately,  
> it is limited to 8x AGP.

Yes, but it's NVidia. (The Intel drivers are open source but the
only Intel graphics cards are built on Intel motherboard
chipsets these days.)

An NVidia GeForce 5200 or later will do; tell mplayer to use
"-vo xv" and make sure XVMC is turned on in the driver. Or
google for XVMC. Note that this only accelerates MPEG2 video --
if you're coding with one of the MPEG4 codecs, you're out of
luck.

My MythTV has an Athlon 3500XP and a 5200 AGP graphics card. It
can decode 1080i at about 30-40% CPU usage. Without XVMC it
occasionally drops frames at 99% usage.

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