[mythtv-users] HD on SDTV playback question

[Rod Smith]

On Monday 26 February 2007 10:59, jason maxwell wrote:
> So are you guys saying that the 5200 based cards will do a better job
> rendering HD content than it's successors? or is it 5200 or newer that
> I should be looking for?
> I ask because finding either a PCI-e 5200 card, or an AGP slot on a
> modern mobo, will severely limit the possible configurations of my
> planned system.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but my understanding is that the nVidia 
6200 and later chipsets have removed support for some features that can be 
useful in XvMC and/or in Linux generally. I get this impression from the 
following:

http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video.html
http://www.blogcadre.com/blog/justin/mythtv_high_definition_minimum_requirements_2006_12_02_21_13_05

I'm pretty sure I read more about this somewhere else, but I'm not sure where, 
I'm afraid.

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Rod Smith
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