<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 1, 2008 8:10 AM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Tom Greer wrote:<br>> On Feb 1, 2008 6:58 AM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>> John Drescher wrote:<br>><br>> ><br>> > I consider intel graphics 2 to 3 years behind ATI and nVidia in<br>> 3D but<br>> > it is unclear how much this effects 2D.<br>
><br>> I think Intel pretty much concentrated on the "business graphics" end of<br>> things while ATI and nVidia went after the gaming market (or the CAD<br>> market if you look at the Quadro series).<br>
><br>> Unfortunately nobody seems to have gone after the video (as in TV)<br>> segment of the market to any great extent.<br>><br>> beww<br>><br>><br>> From a business perspective why should any of these vendors invest a<br>
> lot of money in optimizing TV video when there are numerous posts here<br>> and elsewhere the an nVidia FX-5200 card is sufficient.<br><br></div>Agreed, the 5200 is as good as you need for MPEG2, though I think we<br>
will see some moves towards H264 acceleration.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> If I were making R&D decisions, I'd go after the gaming market where<br>> people are willing to pay megabucks to upgrade/replace their video cards<br>
> regularly. Or the business market where I could sell low cost cards in<br>> volume.<br><br></div>True, the video market is not that large, and the people on this list<br>are not the type to be swayed by marketing hype, or go for the "my<br>
card's bigger than your card" thinking.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> It's not like we will all run out and buy new hardware just because they<br>> made the drivers better. And even if we did, there aren't enough of us<br>
> to be a significant revenue stream.<br>><br>> Open sourcing the drivers is our best hope for improvement in this area.<br><br></div>Also agreed. No sane company will put resources into something that<br>produces no revenue. I do wonder how much Hauppauge makes from Myth<br>
users, as opposed to Windows buyers.<br><br>I was just pointing out why the Intel video devices don't seem to be<br>aimed at 3D apps.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>beww<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Will the 5200 accelerate the display of 720p and 1080i mpeg-2 vshows in MythTV using xvmc?<br>