[mythtv-users] VDPAU PCI card effectiveness?

[Greg Woods]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 00:33 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>  I have a Athlon 2500+ connected by an AGP FX5200 to a
> 800x600 CRT monitor over the VGA port.  I can almost play HD material,
> but not quite.  Any thoughts as to whether or not a VDPAU-enabled PCI
> nVidia card would get me up to playing HD material?

My experience says yes. I've got a lowly Celeron playing HD (both MPEG
files from an HDHomerun and H.264 files from an HD-PVR) to an SD TV
(letterboxed) using VDPAU and it works fine.

--Greg