Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:00 +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> A $40 PCI card, which'll fit a low (CPU-)power Mini-ITX machine in a >> small case with room for only one or two PCI cards? > > PCI? No. If you have no free PCI-express slot, then clearly you can't > upgrade easily. > > The alternative is a motherboard with a recent Intel GMA chipset, which > we will also support.
Right. I tried Jason's current video code with my Laptop which has on on-board Intel card. That works fine, 1080p keps my two cores busy, but it works. > We're moving into the HD era. You need a more capable system to play HD > content. If HD content doesn't interest you and UI eye candy, Freevo > 1.x will continue to be available for as long as Duncan is motivated to > work on it. Well, if you don't have HD content, Freevo 2.0 will work for you in most cases. You only need a 3D card for the eye candy. The small boxes have an Intel or Via chip inside. The Intel will work for you, I have no idea if the Via chips have 3D support or not. I hope Duncan will not support 1.x forever and join us on the 2.0 trunk once we have a 2.0pre1 or 2.0alhpa1 out. > Supporting older hardware is a pain with increasingly diminishing > returns. We have a nice video playback chain now, supporting old xv will tribble the code. We can do all the scaling, zooming, etc. for all players with the same clutter code. That is a huge step to simplify things. We won't support XV content, but there is no one to stop you from adding a patch to support at least one mplayer using xv (not using kaa.popcorn, integrated in Freevo directly). So I guess: if you have a 3D card (no matter what type of card), non-HD content will work for you. For HD content you need more CPU power for the video and some 3D cards may require additional CPU power for the colorspace conversion. Dischi -- Disc space -- the final frontier! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
