[mythtv-users] nVidia card

[Morten Rønseth]

Hi,

Maybe silly question, but what is "XvMC"? Would such a card offload the 
CPU when viewing an mpeg2 stream?


Cheers,


-Morten

Robert Johnston wrote:

>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:21:08 +0200, Morten Rønseth
><morten.ronseth at webfx.no> wrote:
>  
>
>> Hi Garry,
>> 
>> What make is it? I've seen various cards on ebay, some of which claim to be
>>doing mpeg2 decoding...(which I have come to relise isn't very probable).
>>    
>>
>
>Chances are, it's not "MPEG2 Decoding", it's more "MPEG2 Hardware
>Assistance" (In other words, XvMC)
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