[mythtv-users] Intel integrated video sufficient for MythTV HD?

[sean darcy]

On 1/23/06, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> says:
> > First up was intel 945g integrated video. Supports hdtv, 1080p and
> > mpeg-2 hw decoding.
>
> But are there HD Myth-capable accelerated drivers for the Intel video
> chipsets? Like for the 915g chipset on my box's motherboard? My
> understanding is that there aren't, but maybe I just naively assumed
> that Nvidia and Via Unichrome were the only HD-capable video solutions
> with Linux driver support.
>

As I understand it, the standard xorg i810 driver can use xv on the
945g to decode mpeg-2 and output 1080i 16:9 hdtv ( assuming you have
the correct dongle,etc).

But I don't have one. Does anyone? Is this correct?

sean