[Openchrome-users] VIA MM3500

[Lindsay Mathieson]

Hi All, am contemplating building a lowpower quiet myth combined 
front/back end round a Via MM3500 + 2GB Ram 
(http://www.via-mm.com/product/VIA Diamond MM3500.jsp) and wanted some 
informed opinions :)

Its video chipset is the VIA Chrome9 HC DX9 IGP which as I understand is 
supported by OpenChrome for XVideo *and* XvMC
.

I gather it should be fine for SD playback but I was wondering how well 
it would do HD playback at 1280x720p. Of course that would be via its 
VGA output. Not sure how much HD quality I'd compromise doing that. 
Perhaps I would be better just plugging in a NVidia 7200 with its DVI 
output?

Thanks - Lindsay