<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Sarah Katherine Hayes <<a href="mailto:sarah@sarahhayes.is-a-geek.net">sarah@sarahhayes.is-a-geek.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Considering the threads about XvMC, HD in all it's wonderous and bizare<br>formats, I was wondering which graphics chipset should someone be aiming<br>
for if they wanted (eventually) full GPU acceleration? So h264, mpeg2,<br>DivX and so on.<br><br><br>I'm guessing Nvidia is, at the moment out with the lack of PureVideo in<br>their Linux drivers... but I know nothing of the new RadeonHD drivers or<br>
Intel's latest offerings.<br><br>So, what would people recommend for current and future capabilities?</blockquote>
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<div>Current: Nvidia, hands down</div>
<div>Future: I would take a serious look at Intel. They've recently supported XvMC across their chipsets</div>
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<div>My gut tells me that Intel will have H.264 support on Linux before Nvidia or ATI since ATI can't even get XvMC support and Nvidia seems to consider Linux an afterthought much of the time.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>