[mythtv-users] Fanless video card for 1080p?

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Alex Halovanic <halovanic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There *are* actually differences between cards and their VDPAU handling
> and, while memory does play a factor, it's primarily about the supported
> feature set for a generation of cards. For 1080p playback of MPEG 2 HD
> video (the kind off of cable or over the air), all the cards have long
> since reached the point where they will handle that kind of video, plus the
> most advanced deinterlacing settings without any issue.  From personal
> experience, a 730 with 2 GB will be more than enough to handle that: even
> the 210 was already there.  The primary differences now are on accelerating
> H.264 and newer formats and really giant video streams, which I doubt you
> are worrying about yet.
>

Looks like I should be OK if Comcast in my area switches to H264. I'm not
sure which ID the card I'm looking at is but tall the 730 entries pretty
much say feature set C which should cover me. D would get me 4K decoding it
seems but I'm not worried about that right now.

Thanks,
Richard
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