[mythtv-users] Graphics card recomendation

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/25/06 17:45, Gabe Rubin wrote:

>On 8/24/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
>>Both Motion Compensation (MC) and inverse Discrete Cosine Transform
>>(iDCT) must occur when decoding an MPEG-2 video stream.  So, if you're
>>using XvMC and your card doesn't support iDCT, your CPU does it.
>>
>I believe my 5200 is using XvMC, but how can I tell, or set it, to use iDCT?
>

Continuing my previous statement:  If you're using XvMC and your card 
supports iDCT in addition to MC, your card does both, thereby reducing 
the computational load on your CPU.

(If the card and its drivers support both MC and iDCT, the card will 
automatically be used to do both.)

Mike