<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 4/01/2009, at 6:55 PM, Bernard Mentink wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><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>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><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>2. What is the stability state for h264 decoding.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>About the same. Some recent patches to ffmpeg i've not had a chance to try yet.</div><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>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><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">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 class="webkit-block-placeholder"></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><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><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 class="Ih2E3d"><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></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> <br> Until that happens, I would like to know if others have stability problems with the software decoding libs ..<br> <br> </p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </div></div> </div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> mythtvnz mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br> <a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz" target="_blank">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz</a><br> Archives <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>mythtvnz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br>http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz<br>Archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/<br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>