[mythtv-users] Is NVIDIA worth the bother?

[Johnny]

> If you use the packaged versions of the nvidia driver from debian, you
> can use module-assistant to build the kernel package.  Usually this gets
> the job done (as root):  m-a a-i nvidia
>
> You can add the -l option to specify to build for a different version of
> the kernel.
>
> You may need to run 'm-a prepare' first.

I thought this was the whole point of DKMS. I believe Ubuntu uses DKMS
to rebuild the nvidia kernel modules automatically when I update the
kernel. When apt is doing its thing with a kernel update I just see a
line saying it is rebuilding kernel modules and it builds the nvidia
modules automatically. I haven't built a kernel module in years. To
get updated drivers you can find various 3rd party repositories that
have them. Jean-Yves is pretty good about keeping the drivers up to
date in his repository or you could use nvidia's ppa
(https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa).

Also I would point out that I prefer nvidia not just because of the
hardware acceleration, but because of the great improvement in image
quality that I see with the VDPAU deinterlacers. It made a huge
difference on my system. They are really good.