[mythtvnz] Video card for a diskless frontend?

[Stuart Whelan]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Steve Hodge<stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The TV I have 'at the moment' can not do HDTV, so I am not considering
it a requirement.

There is a chance however that we may upgrade the TV, but I think I
will look at upgrading the graphics card at the same time should the
one I choose now be up to the job.

> 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
> wiki.mythtv.org as a good starting point for research.

I have no idea what VDPAU is, and have been avoiding reading the
discussions on it. :)

I might have do change my avoidance policy now.

Thanks the reply!
Stuart.