I've also had good success with Nvidia in Linux. I don't have a recommendation regarding which Nvidia card but I've not had one that didn't work. I've also used the VDPAU acceleration. It also works fine with bluray playback smoothly. I found this page useful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD I wish I had the time to play more with mythTV. Good luck, Dennis On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Brett Delmage wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, John Elliott wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI-Express video card which is well >> supported by X11 and does not require ATI drivers? >> >> Resolution required is 1920x1080 or better. > > Hmm. Not clear from your message if you are implying that you want a > ATI radeon type card with a FLOSS driver, or something else? > > The nvidia-based cards work for me. I was not a fan of the nvidia closed > source drivers for years. But after reading an interview about them about > the shared code between their different platforms, I am more accepting. > Nvidia does at least keep the drivers updated with features for linux. > > John, you mentioned 1920x1080. Are you planning to watch HD video / MPEG > streams? Nvidia drivers support VDPAU ( http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU > ). I installed an inexpensive nvidia card (GT210) on my mythtv box two > months ago and it _really_ works. Watching HDTV takes almost no CPU at > all with VDPAU and the GPU doing most of the work. > > Pccyber has GT210s for (oh my - on sale now, for $36.77 with rebate) Does > that meet your 'inexpensive' requirement? It's a good price even without > the rebate. > > There might be even better deals, but I would not hesitate to look at this > card specifically, and pccyber's stock in nvidia cards. > > Brett > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
