[mythtv-users] Standard PCI VDPAU-capable Video Cards vs. PCIExpress

[Brian Wood]

On Sunday, November 28, 2010 07:22:01 pm Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> 
wrote:
> > On 29/11/2010 11:09 a.m., Brian Wood wrote:
> >> With one exception (a Gigabyte K8NSC-939) they are all Asus
> >> boards. They were set up with dual-core Opteron 165s. AMD made
> >> these Opterons with 939 pins, for use with single CPU setups, and
> >> they are very nice CPUs. As I said they overclock beautifully,
> >> and actually outperform the FX60s of the same vintage.
> >> 
> >> VIA has a reputation for flakiness, I stay away from them as much
> >> as I can.
> > 
> > Sadly this was not obvious to me at the time of purchase many many
> > moons ago!
> > 
> > Stating the obvious one can always dip your foot in the water
> > buying just one and giving it a spin.  (To buy a fan or not to buy
> > a fan...?)
> > 
> > If you're using these all for frontend use I am not sure why you'd
> > want to overclock them?  The only use for overclocking I really
> > see would be for faster comflagging on a backend?  (Or other file
> > manipulations)
> > 
> > FWIW my pentium 3000's PCI FE's are in an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe and
> > Gigabyte GA 8IPE1000-G Rev 3.1
> > 
> > The 9500's probably will suck significantly more power but give the
> > best result.  The recent 8400's might be as good / better than the
> > 9400's now?
> 
> Are there any PCI Feature Set C cards? I am guessing not as Set C
> seems to be 210/220 and higher.
> 
> But if there were, you could presumably play divx/xvid material on
> them. _______________________________________________
> mythtv

Good point.

I wondered about trying to use a Broadcom somehow, but I'd still need 
PCI Express, or have the same problems as a PCI card if it was fed off 
PCI somehow.

I just hate to buy parts that are not very future proof (standard PCI 
video cards), the 939 stuff is obsolete already, but I already have it.

I'll probably just do software decoding, the Opteron 165s should be fast 
enough.