[mythtv-users] Hardware advice requested.

[Noah Markon]

> They really do mean that, not "a 9xxx card". Read the mplayer/VDPAU thread.
> It seems that supported cards are somewhat rare and it's hard to know if
> what you get will work for VC-1/VDPAU. I have yet to encounter much VC-1
> encoded video, even online, so I haven't really seen a need to bother with
> it. If I do, and I really must play it, I suppose I'll transcode. Hopefully
> NVidia will get better support for it in the future. Even a partial offload
> would help. At the very least, it would be nice to be able to tell BEFORE I
> buy the card if it's supported.
>


I'm confused.. I thought the GPU in that motherboard you listed
offload the VC-1 processing?

I was going to buy that exact same motherboard.