I for one have never been able to get acceptable results with XvMC, so I generally don't factor it into my purchasing equation. Then again with AMD X2 6000+'s you ought to be in pretty good shape even without XvMC, I believe VDPAU is still a little on the early side unless you don't mind having some issues (and coresponding reduction in WAF)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Tony Caola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tony@foodsavvy.com">Tony@foodsavvy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>I'm planning on building a new MythTV backend / dual
frontend (with analog composite and HDMI <span> </span>(~720p) outputs), and am planning on taking
the following approach to my build:</p><p>For HDMI output & motherboard:<span> </span>I'm looking at buying an NVidia GeForce 7050PV-based
AMD motherboard.<span> </span>I selected the 7050PV
because it has integrated HDMI and supports XvMC, according to both the
MythTV.org Wiki and the latest nvidia driver's readme.<span> </span>I'm hoping to offload some MPEG processing to
the motherboard.</p><p>For my composite analog output:<span> </span>I'm planning on buying a cheap-o GeForce 6600-based
video card, since it, too, supports XvMC.<span>
</span>More offloading.</p>
<p>I'll put these together with an AMD X2 6000+ and have a nice
system that can suit the need without being overtaxed.</p>
<p>Because of the VDPAU announcement, I would love to go with
the newer GeForce 8200/8300-based motherboards – or even stay with an Intel CPU
and go with a GeForce 9400/9300-based motherboard.<span> </span>But I worry that my Distro of choice (CentOS)
will be a pain or almost impossible to set up on these motherboards.<span> </span>I'm good with kernel builds from scratch. . .
but that doesn't mean I need to like it or plan for it!</p><p>Any comments on my logic? I appreciate it!</p><p>Thanks, </p>
<p>Tony</p>
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