[mythtv-users] BBC HD (1080) h.264 / AVC playback

Stroller linux.luser at myrealbox.com
Wed Feb 21 04:43:26 UTC 2007


On 20 Feb 2007, at 15:37, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:24 AM, David Campbell wrote:
>> Stroller wrote:
>>> I know that nVidia cards are widely used on this list, but I'd  
>>> rather
>>> not be dependent upon nVidia supporting my hardware in the  
>>> future. It
>>> seems to me that if I use one of their cards I am at the mercy of
>>> them should they decide next week "sorry, that's too old for our new
>>> binary drivers",
>>
>> Use the Open source drivers.
>
> Or use their binary drivers and don't upgrade to anything newer when
> the theoretical day comes that they stop supporting your card.

That pretty much leaves me stuffed when I want to run a wireless card  
driver that needs kernel 2.theoretical.day+1, then, doesn't it?

(And, yes, I can get wireless cards which run using OSS drivers, so I  
choose those, too)

Stroller.
  


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