[mythtv-users] Dual or Single core Athlon64 for MythTV front-end machine

Big Wave Dave bigwavedave at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 05:14:04 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/2/1 Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>:
>> chip here too.  Also, unless you intend to play games on this card, don't
>> bother with an 8500.  Grab one of the newer revision 8400s (~550MHz as
>> opposed to the older 450MHz usually indicates G98) or a 9300/9400 chip.
>>  Nice to have around on the off chance you come across some VC1 you want to
>> play.
>
> I've been very disappointed with the 8400gs.. Sure it does VC-1
> decoding with VDPAU, but it doesn't handle any of the advanced
> deinterlacer properly ...

Any idea if this is a fundamental hardware issue with the 8400gs, or a
current driver limitation?

Dave


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