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Phoronix News: No XvMC for GeForce 8 Family
If you've been planning on using a NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT or another GeForce 8 family GPU for a HTPC/media center, think again. NVIDIA has no definite plans on supporting XvMC with their Linux display drivers for the GeForce 8 series. The lack of XvMC, or X-Video Motion Compensation, support in the GeForce 8 series is not a bug but NVIDIA's Ken Spencer has stated: "There are no definite plans at this time to provide XVMC support for the 8000 series graphics cards"...
If you've been planning on using a NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT or another GeForce 8 family GPU for a HTPC/media center, think again. NVIDIA has no definite plans on supporting XvMC with their Linux display drivers for the GeForce 8 series. The lack of XvMC, or X-Video Motion Compensation, support in the GeForce 8 series is not a bug but NVIDIA's Ken Spencer has stated: "There are no definite plans at this time to provide XVMC support for the 8000 series graphics cards"...