[mythtv-users] Intel Releases Programmers Reference Manual

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/01/2008 01:31 PM, aaron wrote:
> On 2/1/08, Tom Greer <trgreer at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> From a business perspective why should any of these vendors invest a lot of
>> money in optimizing TV video when there are numerous posts here and
>> elsewhere the an nVidia FX-5200 card is sufficient.
> /me looks at the GF4 440MX he thought was sufficient
>
> :)
>
> I'm planning to invest in a new TV in the (possibly very) near future,
> since my current TV is about to give up the ghost. I'm kinda hoping
> it's not going to lead to needing a new video card, kernel/OS, CPU,
> RAM, motherboard, and harddrive. ;-)

A GF MX440 works fine.  I used one for 1080p for a while.  You'll find 
that you'll need to disable OpenGL transitions in MythGallery, set Goom 
to very low resolution (scaling to the point of pixelization), and 
probably have to disable the libvisual/ProjectM visualizations (which 
tend to crash, even if you have a system that can use them :).  Also, 
the menus won't be as "snappy" as they would be with a faster graphics 
card  (=one with faster memory) because of their sheer size, but it's 
quite usable... assuming, that is, you have sufficient CPU and RAM 
performance.

I think, though, that you will need to get new HDD's.  What's a "huge" 
storage array for SDTV is tiny for HDTV (which takes about 2-8 times the 
space of SDTV).

Mike