video cards

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for something that is mid-range (it's replacing a  
>>> Geforce
>>> 8600) to play games in windows (nwn2), and also be a mythtv  
>>> frontend (in
>>> linux, with full HD playback).
>>
>> I bought a 9600GT for these same purposes in the spring, but  
>> apparently
>> not all the VDPAU features are supported on this card, so you might  
>> need to
>> target something slightly higher end if your goal is to offload video
>> decoding to the GPU.
>
> The only thing not supported on the 9600 is offload of xvid and divx  
> decoding (and possibly some other codecs). The 9600 can handle up to  
> 1080p h.264 and mpeg2 just fine. (I have one, as well as a 9400M,  
> both of which handle 1080p h.264 and 1080i mpeg2 w/o a problem).

See also: http://mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU

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Jarod Wilson
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