[mythtv-users] Lots of confusion as to which card(s) to buy for vdpau

Andrew Burgess aab at cichlid.com
Sun Feb 1 17:55:43 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 09:36 -0800, Allen Edwards wrote:

> What I am saying here is that computing power is computing power. Put
> it on the graphics card or in the CPU it is still
> computing power. I guess if adding a new graphics card to an old
> system that is sitting around makes it usable, that
> could be a big savings but I don't see any other advantage.

1080p is tough. My old system is a quad core 3.2GHz Q6600 and it
stutters
on maybe 1/4 of the bluray rips I feed it (I have to convert them
down to 720p -- grrrr). I just ordered a 9500GT from newegg. Hopefully
I'll be able to skip the conversion and it'll only cost me $65.




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