[mythtvnz] My New Setup

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard at gmail.com>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] My New Setup


Hi

On 8 May 2010 07:40, David Kirk <davidrkirk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got a Antec NSK1480 case and put a Gigabyte GA-M85M-U2SH motherboard
> in it. The motherboard has a NVidia GeForce 8200 chipset built in.
> That motherboard was very hard to get hold of. There were a few
> online vendors who showed that they had them, but when it came time to
> order, they didn't have the stock and couldn't get it. I ended up
> getting it from Global PC for a lot more that it was being advertised
> everywhere else (even after the discount they gave me). What's really
> disappointing though, is that there are some other cheaper
> motherboards available with GeForce 7xxx chipsets on them. Aparently
> they also support VDPAU. Too late, it's done now.

>It seems that you went to great length of trouble, for something that
is really.... outdated already and won't give you much satisfaction
The 8200 IGP doesn't have much grunt and will struggle even with VDPAU.


Given that it is a SLI motherboard I wonder if something like a 
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Components/Video-cards/PCIExpress/auction-288370560.htm could be slotted on - and get the vdpau 
grunt that is being described, as well as the component out, not to mention the price....?   Might be good for the current TV, as 
well as beef up the vdpau for HDMI?