<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Allen Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com">allen.p.edwards@gmail.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;">
That is a good point but I probably get a better video card and it<br>
looks like the MB without the video is better than the ones with it.<br>
More USB, more SATA, etc. But then they cost more too.<br>
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Don't the built in video cards have shared memory? How big a deal is<br>
that? Is it a plus or a minus to myth type performance?</blockquote><div><br><br>I haven't found it to be a problem. I just put extra RAM in and assign however much to the video chip. My most recent FE box is an Asus M3N78-VM with 2GB RAM total, 512M assigned to video. I'm using VDPAU (mplayer) for playback of HD h264 video, 1080p up to 15Mbit/s and it's working great. I'm on Myth .21-fixes, so no VDPAU in Myth, but all Myth recordings are MPEG2 ATSC, so I can use CPU for playback. I'm using HDMI for video out, but analog sterreo for sound as this TV doesn't have a surround amp available. HDMI video worked perfectly, I didn't have to even mess with Xorg.conf like I did for component out on the main FE machine (also onboard video with shared RAM). <br>
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