On Feb 12, 2008 11:41 AM, Nicolas Will <<a href="mailto:nico@youplala.net">nico@youplala.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><br>On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:26 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:<br>><br>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:<br>><br>> ><br>> > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:<br>
> >>> Do you<br>> >> think that if I were to get a board based on the 965 or G33 that as<br>> >> the<br>> >> driver matured and more of the MPEG2/H.264 acceleration would be<br>> >> taken<br>
> >> away<br>> >> from the CPU and the CPU would actually have spare cycles in the<br>> >> future?<br>> ><br>> > I do think that, yes. This is what i said in my previous post.<br>> ><br>
> > Do I want to be held accountable for my posts? No.<br>> ><br>> > But there is already a git branch of the intel driver with<br>> preliminary<br>> > hardware acceleration.<br>><br>> Hmm. How good is it? My impression of Intel chipsets is that they<br>
> were intended for business use, and didn't have much in the way of<br>> acceleration. Is that an outdated assumption?<br><br></div>If you are playing 3D shooters, they are not comparable to high-end<br>nVIDIA chips.<br>
<br>For our use in MythTV, they are way more than enough.<br><br>My mother-in-low is running a full 3D Compiz desktop on an old Intel 830<br>GPU without any slow-down.<br><br>GMA900, 950, 300 and 3100 were great improvements.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br>What is the name/model number of this upcoming hardware from Hauppauge that will encode directly to h.264?<br><br>John<br>