[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Feb 12, 2008 9:35 AM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:

> jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>   Is
> the hardware there in video cards, but non-supported in Linux?  I read
> somewhere that directx was the method for using these GPUs to their
> fullest,
> so is linux therefore locked out of these GPUs to a point?
>

This is exactly the problem.  Take nvidia for example, the premier driver
for Linux for HD playback IMO.  If I take the same card from my MythTV box
and put it in Windows with the stock drivers, my Athlon 2000 PC could not
play back HD content.  But, if I download the 30 day trial of Nvidia's
PureVideo player with accelerated drivers for Windows, voila, my lowly
processer can chew through HD no problem.

Drivers are the issue and until Linux gets *full* featured drivers with the
necessary hooks for applications to use them, it will always lag behind and
be more about the CPU than the graphics board.

Kevin
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