<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Stuart Whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@somepointinthefuture.co.nz">mythtv@somepointinthefuture.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;">
I am looking for advice on what is desirable in a video card for a front end.<br></blockquote></div><br>Are you planning on doing HD? If not then pretty much anything will work - pushing raw pixels straight to screen is trivial work for any card made in the last 15 years. Low power nVidia cards have been popular because you can get fanless ones. I've been happily using a GeForce 5200 for years. If you've got integrated video then try that first - it should do the job fine.<br>
<br>If you want to use the video card to decode HD video (via VDPAU) then you'll need to look more closely at which models will work. I recommend <a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org">wiki.mythtv.org</a> as a good starting point for research.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br><br>