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

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/4/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Robin Hill wrote:
> > 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).
> >
> I've been waiting almost a year for ATI support for my 9100 IGP
> integrated motherboard chipset.  It still isn't there.   I may be sour
> on ATI but I'm tired of waiting for something with a perfectly good
> alternative exists in Nvidia that works now.
>
> Kevin

uhm, Kevin, it already does. From what I remember, it has for a while.

--
Steve