Hi James,
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:04 -0800, James Trietsch wrote:
> the survey: How many people are running Freevo as part of their
> ordinary PC (I.E., second display/head while having their X desktop on
> the primary) and how many are using a stand-alone box, hooked up to
> the living room TV (or something similar)? I've always felt (and it's
> probably true) that most people were in the former category, so all
That's a good question. I guess I always thought most people were in
the _latter_ category (standalone HTPC system in their living rooms).
At any rate, that's the case for me. (Dedicated HTPC box.)
> Now I'm currently using SDL/DFB to drive the video... Dischi said he
> didn't know how well the clutter SDL backend would drive DFB. Assuming
> it works, would the 2.0 interfaces run on a setup like mine? I'm not
I unfortunately wouldn't get my hopes up over the clutter SDL backend
working well with DFB.
> In the end I suppose I just wanted to add my dissent to the poll. I
> totally understand that new features are going to exceed the
> capabilities of old hardware. I just question the complete and total
> cutoff. Give me the 2.0 interface on my old hardware, and I'll be
> happy.
You might have missed my earlier post in which I said this:
Note that a $40 nvidia card will provide an excellent Freevo 2
experience.
Now, if all you have is PCI slots (no free AGP or PCI-Express), then the
above won't be true.
But if you do have an AGP slot (I'm assuming your Matrox card is AGP?)
you can pick up an older Nvidia GeForce 7xxx series that's AGP and
fanless, so it's suitable for an HTPC. (There are also low profile
options.)
And it will run standard definition content beautifully, and provide you
all the nicely performing interface bling you could hope for.
Cheers,
Jason.
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