AM2, X2, Opteron, or Opteron Socket F?

Mon Aug 21 09:21:24 UTC 2006

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:53:11PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
[...]
> The 7600GT is a great buy right now.
> 
> If you want a high-performance, passively cooled video, the 7600GS is
> also nice and can be had for $90.  It's great for set-top boxes because
> of its built-in HDTV output and video decoding support in MPlayer.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by video decoding support in MPlayer?
There is no special support for nVidia's PureVideo (or whatever it is
called) in MPlayer, if that's what you meant. At best, you can get some
parts of MPEG-2 decoding done by the card using XvMC.

Regards,

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