On 10/05/2010 06:44 PM, James Trietsch wrote: > I'm a little less clear when it comes to video cards. Now that I'm using the > VGA > input on my TV, I can let go of the Matrox (don't need the great NTSC output > anymore). I'd also like something that can do 1280x720 or 1920x1080 (or maybe > 960x540 for 1080i) so I could dial up natural HD resolutions. Hardware > acceleration would be a big plus, but MPEG2 hardware playback isn't a > necessity, > since I've heard that's straight-output without the ability to filter or scale > or whatnot. > > I would like a card that will take me into Freevo 2.0 territory, when the time > arrives. I remember someone mentioning quite a while ago an nVidia card > (8xxx?) > that performed well and even had a passive heatsink, so no extra fan noise. > Anyone have any ideas in that direction? If you are going LCD / Plasma I assume you have the option of HDMI input? If so then the best plan is probably to use that and an appropriate Nvidia card to use VDPAU for accelerated playback.
I have an intel Atom system at home, but with the ION Nvidia graphics. Despite being a horribly slow machine I can playback flawless 1080p clips on the LCD tv with 5.1 surround sound down the HDMI if required :). Some of the cards also support de-interlacing to improve the output even more. Best bet is to check out this myth tv page (yeah I know!): http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU It has a great list of which series cards work and what they support. Further down there is also a table of real user results with various cards. Check out the wiki page I wrote on using Freevo with VDPAU here: http://doc.freevo.org/ASRockIon330Fedora Which lists things like how to output sound via HDMI, options to use with mplayer etc. Hope that helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
