[mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Dec 28 20:09:16 UTC 2004


Neil wrote:

>> Kevin Kuphal writes:
>> Short answer, no.  The long answer is that you can compile MythTV 
>> with support for XvMC which does MPEG-2 acceleration with the 
>> FX5200.  It has it's share of issues working with MythTV and I would 
>> consider it experimental but it promises to do the same thing that 
>> the PVR-350 is doing for you in accelerating the output.
>
>
> Thanks Kevin. Ok, so for now, I should not worry about. Then, what I 
> really need to do is go for the PVR-250 + Nvidia FX5200 card. Are the 
> issues very annoying?

Not really sure, from reading the list the obvious ones are a B&W on 
screen display and other OSD related issues.

Kevin



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