<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM, AGELATOS Athanasios <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Athanasios.Agelatos@intrasoft-intl.com">Athanasios.Agelatos@intrasoft-intl.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">True, but better go the VDPAU way - you get a GT220 or better NVidia card and CPU does not matter anymore, even for 1080p sizes.<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>It's a good idea to use a VDPAU capable card, but I would also get a CPU capable of playing HD without the benefits of hardware acceleration. There will be some new future use that you will find for the extra CPU power (flagging commercials, e.g.). The hardware is now pretty inexpensive. Get something that can throttle itself based on actual demand, so it's not running at full speed 24/7.<br>
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