[queeg]

My first post. Just a quick hardware check. Please let me know if this stuff is too underpowered to play HD at 1088p. I intend to install XBMC on a flash drive and boot from it.

I already have this Foxconn G41S-K LGA 775 Intel G41 motherboard and this Intel Dual core E3300 Wolfdale 2.5GHz cpu.
I'm planning on a single 2GB ram stick because this mobo only has a single slot. It's going in a sff raidmax case.

I'll have to buy a video card with HDMI so I'm looking at something like
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814131339

Thanks.

[prae5]

No get a nvidia card. ATI drivers are awful under linux, upside to nvidia card is you can use hardware acceleration too.

[lordmozilla]

No get a nvidia card. ATI drivers are awful under linux, upside to nvidia card is you can use hardware acceleration too.

+1

ATI cards nowadays have decent OSS drivers but they won't provide H/W acceleration which is what you want for XBMC.

Nvidia provides very good binary drivers that do.

[spiff]

you guys need to update yourself.

we support va-api on linux now. va-api has a xvba backend for amd cards. i.e. you have hw acceled decode.

[Hannes The Hun]

but over the past weeks we had some feedback here from intel and ati users that complain about various problems with the va-api support. so still if xbmc has va-api support it is more often than not the binary drivers from intel and ati that break the fun completely for a lot of guys.
until this changes, we still recommend nvidia and VDPAU over everything else :p remember we are doing the support here and like to make our lifes a little easier