Show Posts
1
Users / Re: Which graphics card to offload the CPU?
« on: August 29, 2008, 10:24:42 am »
VGA is fine for my as my LCD screen has a VGA input and I often connect my laptop to it, although I can't set the screens native resolution on my laptop which decreases the quality a bit. I use 1280x768 as the scren doesn't seem to handle higher resolutions. This may be because the analog signal frequencies become to high for the TV.
It is a "HD ready" screen, so per definition it should be able to handle 1920x1080i.
AFAIK the GeForce 8400 / 8600 cards decode H.264 video (http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_HD.html) and so the CPU just has to deliver the MPEG stream to the graphics card. However, I don't know if LinuxMCE can take advantage of this.
H.264 is used in DVB-S2 which will be my primary video source apart from stored DivX/Mpeg/whatever videos. Standard-Resolution DVB-S uses MPEG2 (H.262).
This sounds to my like the GeForce can work with a small CPU and decode all kinds of MPEG video. At least I hope so because I want my MD to be small and silent...
The Core will be in a different room and is much less critical, altough I'd like to keep power consumption at a minimum.
It is a "HD ready" screen, so per definition it should be able to handle 1920x1080i.
AFAIK the GeForce 8400 / 8600 cards decode H.264 video (http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_HD.html) and so the CPU just has to deliver the MPEG stream to the graphics card. However, I don't know if LinuxMCE can take advantage of this.
H.264 is used in DVB-S2 which will be my primary video source apart from stored DivX/Mpeg/whatever videos. Standard-Resolution DVB-S uses MPEG2 (H.262).
This sounds to my like the GeForce can work with a small CPU and decode all kinds of MPEG video. At least I hope so because I want my MD to be small and silent...
The Core will be in a different room and is much less critical, altough I'd like to keep power consumption at a minimum.