[mythtv-users] Temporary graphics card for 780G system

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:44 PM, twenty.seven at arcor.de wrote:

> What do you think about this? Which graphic card would you  
> recommend? I thought about the Nvidia Geforce 6600 as it is  
> available with HDMI, cheap, and the Nvidia driver supports XvMC.

In light of the new API for offloading video playback to the graphics  
card, I would definitely get a card with a GPU that supports that.

<stolen from the original announcement>
 > VDPAU is currently supported on the following NVIDIA GPUs:
 >
 > Desktop GPUs:
 > GeForce 200 Series
 > GeForce 9 Series
 > GeForce 86xx Series
 > GeForce 85xx Series
 > GeForce 84xx Series
 > GeForce 8800 GTS 512
 > GeForce 8800 GT
 > GeForce 8800 GS
 >
 > Mobile GPUs:
 > GeForce 98xxM
 > GeForce 9700M
 > GeForce 96xxM
 > GeForce 9500M
 > GeForce 9300M
 > GeForce 9200M
 > GeForce 8800M
 > GeForce 8800M GTS
 > GeForce 8800M GTX
 > GeForce 8600M
 >
 > Motherboard GPUs:
 > GeForce 9400
 > GeForce 9300
 > GeForce 9100
 > GeForce 8300
 > GeForce 8200
 >
 > VC-1 support in NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation currently requires  
GeForce
 > 9300 GS, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9300M GS, or GeForce 9300M GS.