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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 2/4/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
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>> Robin Hill wrote:
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>>> On Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:23:05AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>>> Bob wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> 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.
>
>   
They have 2D support in the binary driver from ATI.   They have support 
for the chipset in the R300 driver in X.org, but nothing supports the 
AGP chipset in the motherboard that is also ATI based so DRI or any 
acceleration fails.  Not that it really matters because there is no 
MPEG-2 acceleration.  It would be nice however to have OpenGL support 
which I can't even get because of the lack of AGP support.

Kevin