On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Dan Armbrust < daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd recommend at least a P4 and a Nvidia card - Microcenter has a Geforce > > 210 (fanless) made by Zotac for around $48 - plus there's a $15 mail in > > rebate. > > Note, according to the details I've seen, the 210 doesn't haven enough > horsepower to do full HD decoding with all the bells and whistles: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU > > Ended up going with a 220 card myself... and couldn't find a fanless > one. But, I can't hear the fan over the cpu fan anyway. > > True that - but I have yet to see/miss the bells and whistles I'm missing. I think (but do not know) the bells and/or whistles are a bag of nice graphical transitions and eye candy stuffs.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120125/5046703a/attachment.html>