Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I
> use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image
> detail is less clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver
> isn't accessing the hardware decoding engine.
>
> Are there any good video cards that do hardware decoding/accelleration
> that use a free driver?
>
> I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I
> don't know if, for example, there are fewer choices of free drivers for
> amd64.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug.
Free XvMC support is offered by Intel onboard graphics (which would
require moving to a superior core2-based system), or by the S3/Via
"Chrome" series cards, e.g.
http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/chrome_s27/
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