[MPlayer-users] Using the D510MO Mini-ITX platform for full HD playback

[László Monda]

Here we go again after about one month.

I've just concluded that my D510MO won't cut it.  Not only I cannot
play smoothly full-HD movies, but I cannot even play some of the fast
moving scenes of HD movies smoothly.

I was able to find a used GeForce 8400 GS which I haven't bought yet.
PCI cards are very rare in these days and I wasn't able to find
anything else.  Turns out that this is a 64 bit card and I have a 32
bit PCI slot.  I've made some reading and it seems that 64 bit cards
should work in 32 bit slots but the 32 bit operation causes some speed
degradation, of course.

I'm interested whether 32 bit backward compatibility is assured and if
so will I be able to play back full HD movies whose codec is hardware
accelerated.

If not, then I'll probably sell my D510MO and will buy an ION based board.

Thanks in advance!

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:31 AM, László Monda <laci at monda.hu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
>> Krzysztof Duchnowski <amidk75 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 08.01.2011 00:58, László Monda wrote:
>>>
>>> >>> Speaking of VDPAU accelerated playback I'm interested whether it's
>>> >>> worth buying a feature set C card vs. a feature set B card.
>>> >>
>>> >> You don't have a choice since there is no feature set C PCI card.
>>> >> Note that feature set A has no (additional) resolution limitations.
>>> >
>>> > How about these? :
>>
>> I was assuming we are talking about cards for your D510MO, which (please correct
>> me if I am wrong) does not provide a PCI-E, but a PCI connector. There are two
>> PCI cards: 8400 GS (feature set B, easy to get) and 9400/9500 (feature set A,
>> more difficult to get and more expensive).
>
> Ok, you're perfectly right.  I'm not accustomed to Mini-ITX boards and
> didn't even assumed that it's a PCI slot and not PCI-E.  My bad.
>
>>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo
>>
>> Information on this site should be ok (G105M and friends are missing because it
>> is very difficult to know which feature set they are without testing).
>>
>>> Phony.
>>>
>>> There are full sets of cards working with Linux driver and their VDAPU
>>> feature sets.
>>>
>> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/260.19.29/README/supportedchips.html
>>
>> Information on this site in the "VDPAU features" column is generally (meaning
>> for the few cases where it is not obvious, but the question arises which feature
>> set it is) wrong (marketing reasons).
>>
>> feature set B == some horizontal resolutions are not supported, there is no
>> work-around.
>>
>> Carl Eugen
>>
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