[mythtv-users] Video Card Recommendation

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Aug 12 00:00:31 UTC 2008


Sarah Katherine Hayes wrote:
> Out of interest what distro are you using?  And have you made sure it's 
> using the intel driver?  Finally, have you considered playing with the 
> latest Intel releases?
> 
> Whilst a GeForce card (between 5xxx and 7xxx series) is probably the 
> simplest way to go exploring other options (newer drivers, xorg.conf 
> tweaking and such) with the onboard module might prove less irksome in 
> the future. 
> 
> Keep in mind that currently there is little to no hand off between the 
> GFX and CPU for things like H264 (which might affect you, not sure if 
> your a MPEG2-HD person) so massive GPU's will tend to sit idle in 
> MythTV.  So a cheap Nvidia card is better compared to a super expensive 
> one in that respect.

The OP mentioned reviews I believe. Remember that such reviews are
usually written by gamers, who have a very different set of requirements
than Myth users. Most gamers would not know what XvMC was, take such
reviews with a large grain of NaCl.

beww


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