<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Richard Shaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com">hobbes1069@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;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:28 AM, <<a href="mailto:Jens.Peder.Terjesen@devoteam.com">Jens.Peder.Terjesen@devoteam.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
</div></div>That's interesting. The original post about VDPAU said a 9xxx card was<br>
required for VC-1...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123091" target="_blank">http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123091</a></blockquote></div><br><br>That post says:<br><br>VC-1 support in NVIDIA's VDPAU implementation currently requires GeForce<br>
9300 GS, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9300M GS, or GeForce 9300M GS.<br><br>-----------<br><br>They really do mean that, not "a 9xxx card". Read the mplayer/VDPAU thread. It seems that supported cards are somewhat rare and it's hard to know if what you get will work for VC-1/VDPAU. I have yet to encounter much VC-1 encoded video, even online, so I haven't really seen a need to bother with it. If I do, and I really must play it, I suppose I'll transcode. Hopefully NVidia will get better support for it in the future. Even a partial offload would help. At the very least, it would be nice to be able to tell BEFORE I buy the card if it's supported. <br>
<br>For my frontend, I did the following a lot cheaper than your wishlist. <br><br>Asus mobo, onboard video:<br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318</a><br>
<br>Case, HTPC style:<br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811121068">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811121068</a><br><br>I used an X2 3800+ I had laying around for the CPU. Works fine for MPEG2 ATSC recordings in software, but I needed VDPAU for h264 HD stuff. I also used 2GB of RAM, and dedicated 512M of it to video for VDPAU. I also boot from an 8GB flash stick, so no HD in this machine. I did install a DVD-RW I don't really use for much. <br>
<br>If you go this route, note that the IDE interface is blocked and unusable. Asus mounted it horizontal to the board and there is a drive cage bracket right in front of it. Not a big loss with SATA being so cheap. I would also recomend SATA cables with right-angle plugs on one side for the DVD drive as it's a little close to the CPU heatsink. Mine wouldn't have hit the plugs, but the right-angle ones leave a little more space. <br>