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<blockquote data-quote="ziphnor" data-source="post: 343113" data-attributes="member: 14215"><p>As mentioned above an Ati 3450 should do just fine, it has all the video related bells and whistles of the higher end versions.</p><p></p><p>However, (and this might be a pretty big however), you wont be able to playback all h264/VC-1 material with hardware acceleration. It should work fine with for example Bluray, but online high-def media (trailers for example as well as movies of more questionable origin) are commonly encoded in a manner that is incompatible with hardware decoding. Getting WMV (with for example VC-1) hw acceleration is also problematic (or at least it was for me).</p><p></p><p>I gave up on the 3450 in my old HTPC, turned it into an MP server, and then bought an AOpen MP45-DR barebone (which can also do hw deaccel with its IGP) with a 3.0Ghz CPU, and went for software decoding using CoreAVC instead. As an added benefit, this also gives me working subtitle rendering for MKV files. Admittely it is a bit noisy under high CPU load, but it plays anything without trouble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ziphnor, post: 343113, member: 14215"] As mentioned above an Ati 3450 should do just fine, it has all the video related bells and whistles of the higher end versions. However, (and this might be a pretty big however), you wont be able to playback all h264/VC-1 material with hardware acceleration. It should work fine with for example Bluray, but online high-def media (trailers for example as well as movies of more questionable origin) are commonly encoded in a manner that is incompatible with hardware decoding. Getting WMV (with for example VC-1) hw acceleration is also problematic (or at least it was for me). I gave up on the 3450 in my old HTPC, turned it into an MP server, and then bought an AOpen MP45-DR barebone (which can also do hw deaccel with its IGP) with a 3.0Ghz CPU, and went for software decoding using CoreAVC instead. As an added benefit, this also gives me working subtitle rendering for MKV files. Admittely it is a bit noisy under high CPU load, but it plays anything without trouble. [/QUOTE]
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