Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-22 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:02 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:20:26PM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > > * Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]: > > > > > > Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the > > > > Nvidia driver

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:20:26PM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > * Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]: > > > > Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the > > > Nvidia driver lets the viewer see the MS's facial expression change as > > > Maria

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-21 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]: > > Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the > > Nvidia driver lets the viewer see the MS's facial expression change as > > Maria talks, with the nv driver you miss this subtle facial acting. > > > > I

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:18:27PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I did a direct comparision of the nv driver with the debian-packaged > nvidia non-free driver. The difference I noticed was with playing back > a DVD. > > Card: Asus EN7300GT silent (nVidia EN7300GT), 256 MB. > MB/CPU: Asus M2N

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:20:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:10:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I > > use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image > > detail is l

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 13:12:17 +0100]: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > > * Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]: > > > > > In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double > > > that. It's a significan

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 06:59:19AM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Why is a Core 2 system superior? Just a few highlights, please. The Core 2 can execute more instructions per clock cycle than the Athlon 64. Especially the FPU is much faster on the Core 2. Athlon 64 still wins on raw memory band

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:10:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I > use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image > detail is less clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver > isn't access

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > * Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]: > > > In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double > > that. It's a significantly faster floating point chip, albeit with > > significantly worse memor

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]: > In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double > that. It's a significantly faster floating point chip, albeit with > significantly worse memory bandwidth. Thanks! Do you know of a URL that lays out all the p

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 06:59 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > * Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 08:48:57 +0100]: > > > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > > I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I > > > don't know if, for ex

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 08:48:57 +0100]: > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I > > don't know if, for example, there are fewer choices of free drivers for > > amd64. > > Fr

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Jo Shields
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I > use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image > detail is less clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver > isn't accessing the

video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image detail is less clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver isn't accessing the hardware decoding engine. Are there any good video cards that do