[mythtv-users] Lots of confusion as to which card(s) to buy for vdpau

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/2/3 Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net>:
> Like the subject of the thread says, it's quite confusing.
> Right now I'm trying to decide between te 9500GT or a 8400GS.

If you have enough CPU  grunt I would choose the 9500GT ,because it
handles more deinterlacing option.

> How important is VC-1 decoding, isn't that a microsoft codec?  I know its
> supported by HD_DVD and Blue Ray, but is it really that rampant in the wild?

If you look at the bluray web page listing all the release, I'd say
that a good half are using VC-1 while the other s using H264