[svlug] HTPC: Asus P5E-VM HDMI G35, GeForce 8200 mGPU or other?

[Chris DiBona]

Anyone tried the Drobo stuff?  I've thought of getting one from in
house backup...

Chris

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc_news at merlins.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:28:32PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> I'm upgrading my home theatre system mythtv box.
>>
>> >From my searches, there are no current chips/drivers that do H264 decoding
>> on the GPU with linux, correct?
>>
>> Given that, am I wasting my money if I get a GeForce 8200 mGPU?
>> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=dcb89dffc0b4bbb33dd7da8b79baa6e5&t=990188
>> Due to nvidia closed source drivers, is that board even reasonably usable on
>> linux?
>>
>> Otherwise, it looks like the cheaper
>> http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000ZN2VQ8/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?_encoding=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
>> would be a good choice.
>> Since it's intel, it probably has linux support all around, but the searches
>> I've done so far seem to say that video might be a problem:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-650872.html
>> although it looks like it may work with enough tinkering:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=759279
>
> For the record, I ended up getting the Asus P5E-VM HDMI G35 with an Antec
> black case.
> I got HDMI 1920x1080 working with the latest intel drivers, AC3 through alsa spdiff
> works fine, and mplayer/mythfrontend work fine as long as you can coerce
> them to use xv port 81 and set their own brightness/contrast settings
> because they don't seem to agree on them.
>
> And a dual core duo 3GHz plays H264 at 1080p just fine with 42% of 1 CPU.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Marc
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