<div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/8/12, Phil Wild <<a href="mailto:philwild@gmail.com">philwild@gmail.com</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Thanks heaps, I will look into these cards...<br><br>I was hoping that I could build a fairly low end system (fanless) with<br>
a good graphics card that performed the decompression of the video<br>stream in hardware - well that was the plan anyway....</blockquote>
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<div>The problem is that currently the linux drivers for gfx cards has very limited support for letting the gpu do any part of the video decompression. That is why you still unfortunately need a powerfull CPU to handle all the decompression of HD content.</div>
<br> </div><br>-- <br>Jarle Thorsen