Hi Steve,<br><br>Thanks for the update, much appreciated .. <img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail"><br><br>Let's hope there is some news out of Intel at the LCA ..<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Bernie<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Steven Ellis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><div>On 4/01/2009, at 6:55 PM, Bernard Mentink wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Ok, we are getting off the topic here, I repeat my questions are:<br><br>1. Status of hardware support for <b>G45 </b></blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>Not there yet.. Might be some news at LCA this week as there are a couple of Intel presenters.</div><div><br></div><div>The initial Intel HW support in xorg is for support other than H.264 video</div>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>2. What is the stability state for h264 decoding.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>About the same. Some recent patches to ffmpeg i've not had a chance to try yet.</div>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>I am <b>not</b> interested in an nvidia card .... please direct responses to the topic.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Sadly some people are following the general theme of the subject rather than the content of your posting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br> <br>Cheers,<br>Bernie<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Richard (lists) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rich_lists@richms.com" target="_blank">rich_lists@richms.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The 8400GS is hardly noisy or hot, and at least in windows does a great job of playing all the freeview HD channels and even bluray, so I would expect similar once the access to the GPU is sorted from myth.</span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br></div><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Its available in a passive Heatsink even, so its TDP must be pretty low. Standalone boxes manage h.264 without even heatsinks on chips so there is no reason for a decoder to be hot and noisy.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" target="_blank">mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" target="_blank">mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bernard Mentink<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:06 PM<br> <b>To:</b> MythTV in NZ<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtvnz] State of h264 decoding</span></p> </div><div><div> <br></div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Hi Nick,<br> <br> Yes realize that, but my question is about the G45 chipset, I don't want to put a noisy hot nvidia card in my machine, especially as the G45 is more than adequate. Their was talk of G45 support in the 2.6.28 kernel hence my question?<br>
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