On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I > use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image > detail is less clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver > isn't accessing the hardware decoding engine. > > Are there any good video cards that do hardware decoding/accelleration > that use a free driver? > > I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I > don't know if, for example, there are fewer choices of free drivers for > amd64. > > Thanks, > > Doug.
Free XvMC support is offered by Intel onboard graphics (which would require moving to a superior core2-based system), or by the S3/Via "Chrome" series cards, e.g. http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/chrome_s27/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
