[mythtv] hardware acceleration

Mike Payson mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:23:38 -0800


Thanks for the heads up. Would be nice if they noted that, but oh, well... The 
prices is right, so I have one on it's way...

On Saturday 21 December 2002 11:05 am, Colin Panisset wrote:
> That's where I got mine from and, although it works fine, I should warn you
> that you may end up with a pre-loved unit. Mine had possibly been a display
> unit, or a trade-in, as the box had been opened before, and there was dust
> on the external breakout box. Still works fine, but YMMV.
>
>   -- C.
>
> On Saturday 21 December 2002 00:24, Nathan Langley spake thus:
> > www.compuvest.com has g200-tv for like $29
> >
> > Quoting Mike Payson <mpayson@dawgdayz.com>:
> > > On Friday 20 December 2002 06:25 pm, Ray wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:07:20PM -0800, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > > > > >Is the G400 hardware accelerated also, or just the G200?
> > > > >
> > > > > According to matrox, yes, but I don't how it fares myth-wise. Does
> > >
> > > anyone
> > >
> > > > > know if the g400 is superior to the g200 in any way that would
> > > > > matter to Myth?
> > > >
> > > > The only difference I can think of is that the G400 has (potentially)
> > > > more flexable TV-Out functionality.  That and the fact that most of
> > > > the
> > >
> > > matroxfb
> > >
> > > > developers seem to have G400 series cards so the TV-Out stuff is less
> > > > likely to get hosed up in the future without someone noticing.  There
> > > > are some other differences but AFAIK none of them are relivent to
> > > > Myth.
> > >
> > > Does anyone knwo a source for G200's or G400's? Ebay has a few, but
> > > they seem
> > >
> > > pretty steep.
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