[mythtv-users] Early hardware h264 support for Intel hardware

[Nicolas Will]

On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 10:22 -0500, Andrew Close wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> >> It looks like Intel is moving towards hardware decoding of h264
> video:
> >>
> >>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-March/006378.html
> >>
> >> That would be sweet!  And it would give the ion a run for its
> money.
> >>
> >> --Yan
> >>
> >
> > Wow, depending on the chipset support and performance, this could be
> a
> > game changer.
> 
> hmm, i seem to remember a conversation like this about 2 years ago
> that prompted me (my fault, i know) to run out and buy in Intel mobo
> with Intel graphics and chipset that never got support.  too bad
> really cause it's a decent board (way overpowered) for an HTPC setup. 

Oh, you too? :o)

This is what I bought, even with an sDVO/ADD2 card for an HDMI output...

3 years later, I'm running my third discrete NVIDIA card, a GT 220.

Nico