video cards

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for something that is mid-range (it's replacing a Geforce
>> 8600) to play games in windows (nwn2), and also be a mythtv  
>> frontend (in
>> linux, with full HD playback).
>
> I bought a 9600GT for these same purposes in the spring, but  
> apparently
> not all the VDPAU features are supported on this card, so you might  
> need to
> target something slightly higher end if your goal is to offload video
> decoding to the GPU.

The only thing not supported on the 9600 is offload of xvid and divx  
decoding (and possibly some other codecs). The 9600 can handle up to  
1080p h.264 and mpeg2 just fine. (I have one, as well as a 9400M, both  
of which handle 1080p h.264 and 1080i mpeg2 w/o a problem).

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Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org