If it's just for movies, consider an Intel ARC A380.
Small, cheap, great transcoding performance, and its drivers should be shipped by default with most distros. It really can't do games though.
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use to be good for that personally used one as our daily driver on a 4k 60fps media pc up until recent updates a few months ago
without other tools like adaptivecpp and that is very experimental right now it a useless chunk of silicone
Newegg has a product filter for this exact thing. If you're looking to maybe move into a new case instead, have a look at the Fractal Design Ridge. About the size of a game console.
back to the NVidia problem though. I tried to think of a way, looked at different distros, but NVidia is still a problem
Nvidia is a problem on all platforms. The new open driver sort of alleviates a tiny bit of the pain, but not much when looking at how perfect AMD just runs everywhere.
Skinflint has some options.
I suggest checking each model's power jack positions as well. You don't want to buy a card that barely fits only to find that there's no room left for the power cables.
PCPartPicker can filter for card length (in millimeters as opposed to inches, but still) and that should help with narrowing down your choices. Most GPUs have some variant that's shorter in length, but they might just charge a bit of a premium for it.
I always forget about PC part picker, thank you!
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Here's my solution: buy a Dremel and some safety glasses, and cut out the slot in the case