[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun like device for analog?
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Fri May 14 14:20:40 UTC 2010
> Yes.
>
> The potential problem is that older machines often have AGP slots for graphics
> cards, and no VDPAU-capable cards are available with an AGP interface (if I'm
> wrong, I'd love to know about it).
>
> You can get standard PCI video cards that will do VDPAU, and of course PCI-
> Express, but not AGP.
>
> A complete VDPAU-capable frontend can be had for $200 (the Acer Revo 1600),
> not much more than we used to spend on a high-end video card.
> _______________________________________________
Good news is on my frontends PCI slots are not a problem. Dumb question,
what should you look for in a video card description to know it supports
vdpau? If you search something like newegg.com for vdpau it doesn't
return anything.
Thanks,
James
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