Levi Pearson wrote: > I was just looking at that as a Myth frontend, too. The NVidia chipset > should support the new VDPAU interface to the hardware video codecs, > which should allow smooth MPEG2 and H.264 decoding with minimal CPU > usage. Support for that is still beta in the NVidia driver and MythTV, > but some people have got it working well. > > The downsides for that box: > No HDMI port, so you won't get video+audio on the same cable, though > it comes with a DVI/HDMI adapter for video.
I believe that you can still do audio through HDMI. NVidia tends to pass audio through on a couple of pins on the DVI, which works so long as you use their DVI->HDMI converter. It's not a standard, so don't expect any DVI->HDMI converter to work. Granted I have never actually used this functionality, but I know it's there. I have a GeForce 9500 card that has this functionality (It's a dual-dvi card), provided you pipe audio in using a little cable from a special sound card jack to the video card and buy Nvidia's HDMI adapter. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
