[mythtv-users] Good card for VDPAU high quality?

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Justin The Cynical
<cynical at penguinness.org> wrote:
> On 6/10/10 7:30 PM, Matt Goebel wrote:
>
> *snip*
>> I'm thinking of buying better 220 or better cards to replace them.  Can
>> anyone suggest something decent?  I'd like:
>>
>>   1. Must work well with VDPAU High Quality (duh)
>>   2. Something that runs cooler.  I know I'm looking at a fan but if
>>      it's quiet that's ok.
>>   3. Must have HDMI out and work with a Samsung DLP and LCD (I've read
>>      cards/TV are having issues)
>>   4. Must have *working* 5.1 audio or better.  By working I mean work
>>      under Fedora 12 + alsa-driver from Atrpms...  I just want to grab
>>      an RPM for my kernel, I'm not compiling alsa every time.  Without
>>      this I can't watch my H.264/ACC content.
>>   5. Prefer if it was under $100
>
> I've got one of these:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130523
>
> EVGA 01G-P3-1227-LR GeForce GT 220 SSC Edition 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI
> Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
>
> Works just fine for VDPAU, and when the NVidia driver loads and kicks
> in, I can't hear the fan.
>
> Aside from #4, which I can't test right now as I don't have a receiver
> that can decode the higher end audio streams, so there isn't any point
> in me moving from the optical, it fits all your requirements and is a
> bit on the overkill side memory wise.
>
> I have seen one post in another forum somewhere on the interwebz that
> said in their testing, 1 gig of DDR3 made for smoother VDPAU playback on
> the higher bitrate files, and at the time I purchased this, the price
> difference was small enough that it was worth it.
>
> So far, I have no complaints, aside from that it wasn't free.  :-)

I put one of these in my parents new frontend and it works great and
is very quiet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130525
EVGA 01G-P3-1225-LR GeForce GT 220 1GB



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