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2010-06-19, 01:51
Folks, trying to decide what to do.
Looking at the CrystalHD cards, they are about $70USD at the moment and i can pick up an Nvidia Geforce 8 card for about $100USD.
Any gotcha's with the Nvidia card? read a few threads that i need to have a nightly build for both on windows (doesn't bother me).
Thoughts? Comments?
-Boris
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Well first...there is no VDPAU for windows. It will be called DXVA for something similar. The Geforce 8 series will not hardware decode all VC1 encodes, so be aware of that. If you arent using it for games and only for video you might be better off getting a Geforce 2xx series.
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That's pretty expensive for a geforce 8.
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Thanks for the reply folks, its appreciated!!
i was hoping to get away with one, all-in-wonder card as my HTPC is a bunch of old parts cobbled together and only has 2 PCIe slots. One slot is being used for my vid card and the other for my TV capture card, so I was hoping to get away with replacing just the vid card with one that had h.264 support.
The HTPC hardware run's 720p ok, but pukes on anything higher, so I am hoping the crystal HD card will sort out playing my 1080p h.264 files. The issue I get is video/audio being out of synch in xbmc. If I reboot and close all my open apps (like vmware), it seems to just keep in synch.
thanks tho folks, helps a bunch!
-Boris.
p.s. Davilla, any ideas when the next stable release of xbmc will be posted? i've got no issues running a nightly build to get crystalHD support, but curious more than anything.