[mythtv-users] asus M3A78-EM

Travis Tabbal travis at tabbal.net
Mon Jan 26 16:00:23 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>wrote:

> That is a good point but I probably get a better video card and it
> looks like the MB without the video is better than the ones with it.
> More USB, more SATA, etc.  But then they cost more too.
>
> Don't the built in video cards have shared memory?  How big a deal is
> that?  Is it a plus or a minus to myth type performance?



I haven't found it to be a problem. I just put extra RAM in and assign
however much to the video chip. My most recent FE box is an Asus M3N78-VM
with 2GB RAM total, 512M assigned to video. I'm using VDPAU (mplayer) for
playback of HD h264 video, 1080p up to 15Mbit/s and it's working great. I'm
on Myth .21-fixes, so no VDPAU in Myth, but all Myth recordings are MPEG2
ATSC, so I can use CPU for playback. I'm using HDMI for video out, but
analog sterreo for sound as this TV doesn't have a surround amp available.
HDMI video worked perfectly, I didn't have to even mess with Xorg.conf like
I did for component out on the main FE machine (also onboard video with
shared RAM).
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