[mythtv-users] Good card for HD playback

Justin The Cynical cynical at penguinness.org
Wed Mar 29 06:12:12 UTC 2006


Marco Nelissen wrote:

> For what it's worth: I have no A/V sync problems with
> XvMC, and using XvMC reduces CPU usage from about 70%
> to about 40%. This is with an FX5200 on an Athlon64
> 3200+ (socket 939)

Also for what it's worth, I had smooth HD 1080 playing on an 1 Gig 
T-Bird with an MX440 attached to a monitor using XvMC.

Free CPU on that system was about the same as XvMC with a 6200 on a 
Celeron 2 gig


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