From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SHbwq-00014d-Dh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:21:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D0E1E0C0D; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC54EE0BDA for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so4755956bkw.40 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:19:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B1wqRrqzTJOEwY2F7WhskbJ+Gcmon8SmXPBgFR1pi0s=; b=jOMuF86dAPyaK2yUu6puam+ObuwAn3bYg3sFmu7MKAXJBXFwG6Qck1EwHpNo0UxUbR w3QdPEU3kbk087TY/z1MynOpPIav7fCU0FSQWq2rN1X/MyIxHHaEhTjNHqcS0q0QhTg+ TJH/gbb2LTtQVXzUH6MSmVp/GeSGPw6NaR26+LTHmPbgAhx2ab1LfYgliToj2dBwlEks mpCUNGtEwAAyMPvf1inosNjycrdwYKP44WB8cD8ui+yGvguF/yLw82fxigQLOWQmB8CM 3ubK/NWJmMoAH13VgIj6dTM5jMeYxSiiH/bEGVYFqx/q1U3IXHJ7fe39QhrRBgkXo1E7 APYg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.157.138 with SMTP id b10mr4614886bkx.75.1334067586996; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.164.76 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:19:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120410112621.GA10304@waltdnes.org> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:19:46 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1dc89059-5256-400e-9053-65432278dce5 X-Archives-Hash: b845469b38943c9788c4b3f2e6ac0410 On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrot= e: > On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> =C2=A0 With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 >> (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast >> enough to keep up. =C2=A0E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me = to >> play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer. =C2=A0On some html5 video= s >> (Firefox with USE=3D"webm"), The download is actually a touch faster tha= n >> the playback, and there's no buffering at all. >> >> =C2=A0 Some of you may remember my struggles to get my 4-year-old Dell t= o >> eventually display hockey games on NHL GameCenter even at the lowest >> available speed using the onboard Intel GPU. =C2=A0Well, I can play the = HD >> Youtube videos with the "small player" or "large player", but fullscreen >> is hopeless. =C2=A0The onboard GPU can't keep up. =C2=A0So I'm looking a= t getting >> a PCI video card. =C2=A0Any relatively new PCI video card that is suppor= ted >> by an open-source driver, including hardware acceleration? =C2=A0Any >> experiences, good/bad/so-so? > > > This is a CPU problem, not GPU. =C2=A0Try to install media-video/smplayer= -0.8.0 > (older versions don't support YouTube), and open the YouTube video link i= n > it. =C2=A0In the preferences ("performance" section) you can select the q= uality > at which to open the videos. Yes and no. You can use GPU acceleration for video decoding. I'd suggest the low-end nVidia GeForce cards, as any nVidia card from the last couple years will do hardware h264 decode (which even Linux versions of Flash will take advantage of, now), but I don't think the novou drivers implement vdpau support yet. My favorite is the nVidia GeForce 210; cheap and effective. I picked up a couple of them retail for $50 USD. At the time, I think there were PCI versions available, but I don't know if that's still true. --=20 :wq