Ive been wanting to make this for buying and building computers
hope this information is helpful to others.
A complete list of DDR or faster early video cards
that support some or all MPEG-2, and HDTV in hardware.
nVidia--------------------------------------
Video Processing Engine (VPE)
GeForce4 Ti Series = NO
GeForce4 MX Series = YES
GeForce4 420, 440, and 460 Go = YES
GeForce4 4200 Go = NO
Video Processing Engine (VPE)
GeForce FX 5200 or higher
GeForce PCX 5300 or higher
GeForce FX Go 5100 or higher
PureVideo Technology
GeForce 6150 or higher
GeForce Go 6100 or higher
PCI-Express Turbo Cache
GeForce 6400 TC 128MB = NO
GeForce 6200 TC 256MB = YES
GeForce 6200 TC 128MB = NO
GeForce Go 6200 (TC) = YES
PureVideo Technology
GeForce 7100 or higher
GeForce 7000M or higher
ATI-----------------------------------------
AGP Desktop:
Radeon 7500 or higher
Radeon IGP 340, 9000, and 9100
AGP Notebook:
Radeon 7500 or higher
Radeon IGP 320M, 340M and 7000 or higher
PCI-Express Desktop:
Radeon Xpress 200 or higher
Radeon X300 or higher
PCI-Express Notebook:
Radeon Xpress 200M or higher
Radeon X300 or higher
Via/S3--------------------------------------
ProSavage8, UniChrome, and Chrome series or higher
Intel---------------------------------------
Extreme Graphics 2
Desktop
i865 chipset or higher
Notebook
i852 chipset or higher