[mythtv-users] Advice on cheap video card for low-spec mythtv box

[Clyde Stubbs]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:10:48PM +0100, Andy Clark wrote:
> What I was really wondering was does anyone have any experience with using
> the "mpeg" feature on a radeon card? Specifically, I'm looking at the

So far as I am aware, there are no Linux drivers for ATI cards that
make use of the in-built MPEG acceleration. I've had good success with
a 9200SE card, but that's using software MPEG decoding, and it's
an AGP card.

> I've read in other mailings that there are potential issues with the tv-out
> on radeon cards. However, I do already have a radeon 9800 AGP card (also

It's working very well for me, using XFree86 4.4.0 with Gatos ATI drivers,
under a 2.6.7 kernel. The /dev/drm support also works, providing hardware
frame sync.

I really don't know what the best solution for you is, except perhaps
a different M/B & CPU, which I guess is what you're trying to avoid.