Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:31:41 +0000
Matt Dawson wrote:

> nVidia is currently the *only* way to
> go for fully supported graphics past basic DDX. Radeons can be
> coerced into some semblance of 3D support but there's no xvmc or
> stream decode support at all for us. fglrx has it, but that's Linux
> only and isn't as well supported as VDPAU on things like MythTV and
> mplayer.
> 
> I have an HTPC running FreeBSD into a generic "full HD" 32" LCD and 
> the el-cheapo GeForce 210 

There's a useful table on wikipedia 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo


It's probably best to avoid those in feature set A and B.  I have a 
GT 430, which like the 210 has feature set C, and handles everything
I've thrown at it.