[mythtv-users] Matrox Millennium G400 MAX

[William Powers]

On Oct 4, 2010, at 12:05 PM, "mike at grounded.net" <mike at grounded.net>  
wrote:

> No big deal, this thread has at least confirmed that I need to buy  
> at least one more piece of hardware if I want to see this thing  
> running.
> I was sure someone told me that it would still work but since I'm  
> always doing too many things at once, probably didn't catch  
> something important like 'but not anymore'.
>
> After what I've put into it so far, what the heck, I'll find a used,  
> cheap, but current card and try that. Once it's working, then I'll  
> probably want something fancy for SD and HD.
>
> Thanks for everyone's input, at least I won't spend any more time  
> trying.
>
> Mike

My best advice is to spend $30 on a new fanless GeForce 8400 GS for  
your new motherboard along with the latest NVidia proprietary driver  
and plan on using the VDPAU Slim playback profile.  That's probably  
the cheapest failsafe solution.