Depends on the player. Thane said he uses VLC. My understanding is that the current version of VLC has no support for any form of GPU offloading. The upcoming, unreleased 1.1 player version will offload SOME work to the GPU via DXVA 2.0. Vista or better is required, and it doesn't offload as much work as other players.
So, upgrading the video card won't do any good unless you also change players. > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 8:14 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Question on video card for HTPC > > Yes. Upgrade the card - spend about $40 for one that will do dxva, and you'll > get 1080p at about 20% cpu usage or less > > ------Original Message------ > From: Thane Sherrington > Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Question on video card for HTPC > Sent: May 13, 2010 8:08 AM > > At 09:21 AM 13/05/2010, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: > >What you really need to do is ditch the card for something like a > >5450 (full hd bitstream over hdmi, dxva h264) or a 4350 (lpcm over > >hdmi, basic bitstream and dxva). Better performance, reliable > > So just upgrading the card will do me? Sounds good. > > T > > > > Sent via BlackBerry
