[mythtv-users] Standard PCI VDPAU-capable Video Cards vs. PCIExpress

[Robert Longbottom]

On 28 Nov 2010, at 06:07 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:57:50 am Robert Longbottom wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> How about the OSDs? Are they OK?
>> 
>> Yes, the osds were fine - I assume you mean during playback? 
>> Everything just worked.
>> 
>>> May I ask what mobo you are using? Most of them have a BIOS setting
>>> to tell it what graphics card to use first, this might correct the
>>> booting problem.
>> 
>> No idea. It's a small form factor HP business pc that I got from work
>> when they were selling them off for £30 as part of an upgrade.
>> 
>> I did have a fiddle around with the various settings in the bios but
>> never managed to find a combination that worked. I think I ended up
>> wit the on board graphics disabled, an old-ish nvidia agp card and
>> the Sparkle pci card in it. That's the only way it would boot!  The
>> bios and text console display on the agp card and I configured X to
>> run on the pci card.
>> 
>> Sadly the agp card wasn't new enough to do vdpau and I couldn't find
>> a low profile agp card that would. Thankfully the pci slots were
>> turned on their side it would take a full height card.
> 
> I'm not aware of any AGP card that will do VDPAU. If I could find one I'd 
> jump on it immediately. The only ones I have found are either PCIExpress 
> or PCI.
> 
> If I've missed one I'd love to hear about it :-)

I don't think so. I'm fairly sure I looked for any vdpau capable agp card about a year ago and drew a blank.  It was hard enough at the time to find a fanless pci card that I could get in the UK. 

Robert.