[mythtv-users] Which onboard video card is best? and other recommendation for a HTPC

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2008/10/15 Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net>:
> I doubt you'll notice much difference with H264. It's all about CPU with
> that codec. I've got a 3Ghz chip on the way to try to get clean decoding of

Well, my mac mini with a 2.33GHz C2D is having trouble properly
displaying some H264 encoded 1080p video I have.

Also with mythtv the GMA950 doesn't support stuff like OpenGL sync.
I've tried all de-interlacer option and 1080i MPEG2 video looks crap.
The best result I got was with GreedyMotion but the CPU usage jumps to
120+% ..

So yes, I agree .. it's mostly to do with the CPU but if the video
card basic support is crap the system won't go far.

I have another mythtv box, with a nvidia 8600GT and a E8200 CPU
(2.6GHz) and the picture is perfect, H264 decoding never struggle,
de-interlacing for liveTV is perfect etc...
On paper, there isn't much difference between the T7600 2.33GHz C2D
and the E8200...

The X4500HD also has hardware H264 decoder, though I'm not sure if
Linux supports will ever be added to make use of it.


> H264 1080p on my Myth box. I'm using an NVidia 6150 based onboard video and
> it's doing fine. I imagine the 7100 would work fine as well. I'm not all the
> familiar with Intel graphics chips, but you're not using the GPU for a whole
> lot, so it will probably work fine.

Thanks for your answer ...