[mythtv-users] ATI Radeon 9250 Vs Nvidia GeForce 5200

[Robin Hill]

On Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:23:05AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Bob wrote:
> > Mmm, I?m not looking at the ATI driver. I?m trying to find the readme 
> > files (or the developer mailing list) for the OS drivers, both the 
> > ?radeon? & ?r200? ones to see if there?s any mention of MPEG.
> >   
> I'll save you time, it's not in there.  It would have to support XvMC 
> which is what Myth supports for MPEG acceleration and ATI doesn't have 
> it.  Period.
> 
It doesn't have it _yet_.  Dave Airlie is currently working on XvMC for
ATI.  It looks to be early days yet but I'm keeping my fingers crossed
on this (since Nvidia cards won't clock low enough to support a
VGA-SCART output).


Cheers,
        Robin
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