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<p><tt>-----Travis Tabbal wrote: -----<br>
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<tt>>They really do mean that, not "a 9xxx card". Read the mplayer/VDPAU<br>
</tt><tt>>thread. It seems that supported cards are somewhat rare and it's hard<br>
</tt><tt>>to know if what you get will work for VC-1/VDPAU. I have yet to<br>
</tt><tt>>encounter much VC-1 encoded video, even online, so I haven't really<br>
</tt><tt>>seen a need to bother with it. If I do, and I really must play it, I<br>
</tt><tt>>suppose I'll transcode. Hopefully NVidia will get better support for<br>
</tt><tt>>it in the future. Even a partial offload would help. At the very<br>
</tt><tt>>least, it would be nice to be able to tell BEFORE I buy the card if<br>
</tt><tt>>it's supported.<br>
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<tt>There are two reasons I bought a new mother board with onboard graphics supporting VDPAU.<br>
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<tt>1. I only had a motherboard with an AGP slot, so either had to try to find a PCI card with support for VDPAU but there doesn't seem to many of those, or buy a new motherboard with PCIe slot and possibly a new graphics card as well.</tt><br>
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<tt>2. Since it is really not known which hardware that will eventually support VC-1 decoding and that the price difference between motherboards with and without onboard graphics is quite small, I decided to get a motherboard with onboard graphics that can handle H.264 which is what I am interested in now. And if it can't handle VC-1 I just buy a separate graphics card in the future when the status of which hardware supports it is probably known.</tt></body></html>