[mythtv-users] Intel vs AMD for Myth - dual core....
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
gtgj at pacbell.net
Fri Jun 24 17:36:03 UTC 2005
>>>>> Brian Foddy writes:
b> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Mudit Wahal wrote:
>> 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.
b> Is this correct? I've been using 5200/5600 series cards for a couple
b> years using XvMC. It works and helps some but I would hardly call
b> it offloaded. Does the 6200 etc cards have more mpeg2 processing
b> in Linux than their predicessors? And how is it activated?
b> With the XvMC lib/api or is there something new?
The newer cards have what nVidia calls PureVideo technology:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html
which looks interesting but there are no drivers nor libraries for
Linux. Maybe someday ...
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Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
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