[mythtv-users] Low powered nvidia GPU

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> anything from nvidia on their current range (600-series) should be perfect.
> which drives you use is dependant on the card you have bought; i beleive
> phoronix did a test between the nouveau and offical nvidia drivers and it
> was card dependant on which performed substantially better. the lower end
> cards generally seemed to be better on the nouveau driver.

VDPAU is not supported on the nouveau driver.  You have to use
the nVidia binary blob driver for full VDPAU at this time (as I
recall, there is some work using shaders in mesa, but that is
not quite the same as using the dedicated hardware support).

Gary