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

[Nicolas Will]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:26 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:
> >>>  Do you
> >> think that if I were to get a board based on the 965 or G33 that as
> >> the
> >> driver matured and more of the MPEG2/H.264 acceleration would be  
> >> taken
> >> away
> >> from the CPU and the CPU would actually have spare cycles in the
> >> future?
> >
> > I do think that, yes. This is what i said in my previous post.
> >
> > Do I want to be held accountable for my posts? No.
> >
> > But there is already a git branch of the intel driver with
> preliminary
> > hardware acceleration.
> 
> Hmm.  How good is it?  My impression of Intel chipsets is that they  
> were intended for business use, and didn't have much in the way of  
> acceleration.  Is that an outdated assumption?

If you are playing 3D shooters, they are not comparable to high-end
nVIDIA chips.

For our use in MythTV, they are way more than enough.

My mother-in-low is running a full 3D Compiz desktop on an old Intel 830
GPU without any slow-down.

GMA900, 950, 300 and 3100 were great improvements.

Nico