[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?

[John Massengale]

On Feb 12, 2008 11:41 AM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:26 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:22 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:
> > >>>  Do you
> > >> think that if I were to get a board based on the 965 or G33 that as
> > >> the
> > >> driver matured and more of the MPEG2/H.264 acceleration would be
> > >> taken
> > >> away
> > >> from the CPU and the CPU would actually have spare cycles in the
> > >> future?
> > >
> > > I do think that, yes. This is what i said in my previous post.
> > >
> > > Do I want to be held accountable for my posts? No.
> > >
> > > But there is already a git branch of the intel driver with
> > preliminary
> > > hardware acceleration.
> >
> > Hmm.  How good is it?  My impression of Intel chipsets is that they
> > were intended for business use, and didn't have much in the way of
> > acceleration.  Is that an outdated assumption?
>
> If you are playing 3D shooters, they are not comparable to high-end
> nVIDIA chips.
>
> For our use in MythTV, they are way more than enough.
>
> My mother-in-low is running a full 3D Compiz desktop on an old Intel 830
> GPU without any slow-down.
>
> GMA900, 950, 300 and 3100 were great improvements.
>
> Nico
>
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What is the name/model number of this upcoming hardware from Hauppauge that
will encode directly to h.264?

John
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