[mythtv-users] nVidia 9600GT and XvMC - there or not?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 01:45:08 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Steve Heistand <steve at heistand.org> wrote:
>>
>> So, XvMC... there or not in the 9xxx series? I have hunted on the
>> nVidia site, Phoronix and Google in general and can't find
>> confirmation. Is the card too new? I could not find a 7xxx series PCI
>> Express with HDMI out, so sprang for the 9600 (skipping the
>> problematic 8xxx series) thinking it was a good thing, now its a
>> waste...
>
> well there is always the question is your CPU fast enough not
> to even need xvmc in the first place? ~2.5ghz+ dual cpu of some sort?

That's what I was thinking, too.  XVMC shouldn't be needed at all.


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