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

[Calvin Harrigan]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/2/10 Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca>:
>   
>> I'm considering getting an Asus P5N7A-VM motherboard which has a GeForce
>> 9300 onboard.  I see one report at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Vdpau
>> which says that One Field 1x HW playback works.  Has anyone tested this
>> with better de-interlacers?  Or can anyone estimate where this would lie
>> in Jean-Yves' family of cards?  I'm thinking it might handle VC-1 too.
>>     
>
> I've read various reports of failure due to heat with the Asus
> P5N7A-VM ; you may want to check that.
>
> The 9300 onboard is exactly the same as the 9400 but runs at a lower speed.
>
> So it should be in between the 8200 and 9400...
>
> It will do VC-1 just fine, only problems may be with deinterlarcer.
>
> Jean-Yves
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This thread covered several GPUs over the past couple weeks indicating
the limitations of each, etc.  It seems that a lot of people are hung up
on the GPUs supporting VC-1, but I would imagine that a GPUs that
supports the best de-interlacers would be more important.  If you're
going to play blue-ray, odds are that you'd use a standalone player. 
Just my 2 cents.