[mythtv-users] Intel vs AMD for Myth - dual core....
Brian Foddy
bfoddy at visi.com
Fri Jun 24 16:18:28 UTC 2005
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2005 10:27 am, Brian Foddy wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Mudit Wahal wrote:
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> The HD recording is already in mpeg2. If you get a decent nvidia
>>> graphics card with component output (gt6200, gt6600, gt6800), then
>>> most of the hardware processing can be offloaded to the graphics card.
>>
>> Is this correct? I've been using 5200/5600 series cards for a couple
>> years using XvMC. It works and helps some but I would hardly call
>> it offloaded. Does the 6200 etc cards have more mpeg2 processing
>> in Linux than their predicessors? And how is it activated?
>> With the XvMC lib/api or is there something new?
>
> Nope, it's not correct. Same amount of acceleration.
>
> Isaac
Ok, thanks for the clarification.
Brian
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