whats the best graphics card for HD playback?

[Jarod Wilson <jarod (at) wilsonet.com>]

On Jan 23, 2006, at 17:04, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> > > > how do you guys know that your Xwindows is set at 1080p?
> > > From the X log:
> >
> > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1080
> > > ...
> > > (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1920x1080"
> > Nope, that only says your resolution. It doesn't say if it's  
> > interlaced or
> > progressive. When you see like 480i, 480p 720p, 1080i or 1080p, it's
> > actually says how a movie or a video was encoded. It's a format.  
> > So how do
> > you know that your video card is set to progressive. Or I read  
> > somewhere
> > that video cards have always been progressive. Anyone?
> >
> > I'm also running mine at 1920x1080 via 6600GT and you guys are  
> > right, it's
> > awesome!
> Well, then I know it's progressive because my modeline is not an
> interlaced modeline...  Oh, and the fact that my TV won't accept 1080i
> over the VGA port.  ;)

In my case, I have a modeline like so:

ModeLine "1920x1080p" 148.352 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125

And in my xorg logs:

(**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device DFP-0:
(**) NVIDIA(0):      Mode "1920x1080p": 148.4 MHz, 67.4 kHz, 59.9 Hz
...
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1080
...
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1920x1080p"

1080p is rather nice for desktop-like use on this thing too...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod (at) wilsonet.com

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