[mythtv-users] New to HD, which nvidia card

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sun Apr 9 17:25:44 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 13:01 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:

> Any of the 5xxx or 6xxx cards should be fine. For tv playback the 5200
> (I think the whole 5xxx series, Daniel will prbly correct me) is
> considered the best, but as many will tell you the 6xxx series will do
> fine as well, and will be better for gaming.

I have a 6200 and it works fine with XVideo playback in MythTV,
but the 5200 is the best value if you want to use XvMC, since
as a 5xxx card it supports Chromakey OSD. Someday I hope to add
support for something similar on 6xxx cards, but it is pretty
low on my TODO at the moment.

-- Daniel



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