[mythtv-users] Video Card Usage

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 10/14/07, Timothy M. Admire <tim.admire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I remember right, the old card I am going to use is a Gainward branded
> Geforce 2 with 64MB of ram (could be 32 though).  Would this be able to
> handle the decoding job?  I really do not want to leave it to the CPU.


Unfortunately, that card is not capable of XvMC, which is what you need. You
need a GeForce 4 or later for that.  You shouldn't have much trouble finding
such a card for next to nothing; it's been a few years since GeForce 4 cards
were the latest and greatest.

Carl Fongheiser
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