[mythtv-users] video card selection

[Andrew Burgess]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 22:14 -0400, Josh White wrote:

> I'm thinking of adding this ZOTAC ZT-96TES3D-FSP GeForce 9600 GT 512M
> card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500070)
> to my desktop machine, which will be running Windows 7 (it's a Dell
> XPS Gen 5 w/ a Pentium D & 4gb of ram) and I was wondering if it would
> be up to the task of playing a Blu-Ray.  Does the windows equivelent
> of VDPAU take enough of the load that my loaly 3ghz Pentuim D system
> would be able to play a blu-ray? 

3Ghz is right on the edge for playing blu-ray (my 3.2 Ghz Q6600 could
play about a third of the blu-rays I threw at it). So if the windows
system offloads anything at all it should work.