[mythtv-users] nvidia card for 4k display

[Andre Newman]

On 19 Sep 2014, at 02:08, Evuraan <evuraan at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I have a GT640 which I can confirm will play h264 4k and UHD (3840x2160) at 24fps and 30fps, I don’t have any 4k or UHD videos in h264 at 50fps or 60fps, in fact I don’t think the appropriate H264 levels support the higher frame rate.
> 
> I had this GT730 in my mind; fan-less too!
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-GeForce-PCI-Express-Graphics-ZT-71108-10L/dp/B00LZKWU16/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1411088104&sr=1-3&keywords=nvidia+4k

Interesting card, fanless and half height, handy.

> 
> reading about  nvidia maxwell gen 2 from your reply, I have decided to
> wait a tad bit more.

Well they are out but only the high(ish) end GTX980 & GTX970, they do have HDMI 2.0 as rumoured/expected but I can’t find anything definitive about h.265 decoding. The wording I’ve seen was sufficiently vague that I suspected perhaps the existing GTX 750 & 750ti would have it too and the 750 is available fanless now and ok price. 

I also can’t quite work out if the software part of the h.265 decoding will be on GPU or part of binary driver running on CPU, would make a massive difference to what CPU and/or what exact GPU you might require to make h.265 work properly. I’ll be waiting a little more for some clarification. 

Seems they are working on it for VDPAU so we will get it on Linux at some point and hopefully in MythTv too.

Andre



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