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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2008 9:35 AM, Brian Phillips <<a href="mailto:brian.phillips@gmx.net">brian.phillips@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a> wrote:<br> Is<br>the hardware there in video cards, but non-supported in Linux? I read<br>somewhere that directx was the method for using these GPUs to their fullest,<br>
so is linux therefore locked out of these GPUs to a point?</div></blockquote>
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<div>This is exactly the problem. Take nvidia for example, the premier driver for Linux for HD playback IMO. If I take the same card from my MythTV box and put it in Windows with the stock drivers, my Athlon 2000 PC could not play back HD content. But, if I download the 30 day trial of Nvidia's PureVideo player with accelerated drivers for Windows, voila, my lowly processer can chew through HD no problem.</div>
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<div>Drivers are the issue and until Linux gets *full* featured drivers with the necessary hooks for applications to use them, it will always lag behind and be more about the CPU than the graphics board.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>