[mythtv-users] VDPAU blows up video card, film at 11

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Jan 18 17:47:14 UTC 2009


On Sunday 18 January 2009 06:09:09 ryan patterson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> says:
> >> [A]t least one Myth dev (who knows quite a bit moer about myth than
> >> the average user) has a permanently *physically damaged* card as a
> >> result of testing VDPAU.
> >
> > !!! Tell us more.
>
> Yes please explain how that is possible.  I don't want to call you a
> lier, but it is inconceivable for software to "physically damage" a
> hardware device (corupting firmware or overclocked hardware situations
> both don't apply).

Perhaps the video card got tossed across the room?

I have certainly felt like doing that on occasion.

Monitors used to get blown up by driving them beyond their capabilities. The 
only way I can think of to damage a card would be by over-heating somehow.
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beww
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