[mythtv-users] Why does everyone love the FX5200?

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Fri May 5 01:23:18 EDT 2006


Andrew Kuan wrote:
> I have a GeForce4 MX440. I use XvMC which works fairly well for
> decoding HD content. However, I have noticed that a) I still get some
> pausing while OSD is up with both SD and HD content, b) A/V doesn't
> stay in sync in HD despite CPU utilization being only 50% or so, and
> c) after I switch back and forth between different HD channels a few
> times, eventually MythTV stops responding to input and I have to
> ctrl-alt-backspace to break out of X.
>
> So is going with an FX5200 likely to cure any of these ills?
> Particularly with point B, I find it strange that I'm still getting
> loss of A/V sync despite only having 50% CPU utilization. Would that
> imply that the bottleneck is with the GPU somehow? What am I missing
> with all these FX5200s that everyone buys?
I replaced an MX4000 with the FX5200 to see if HD would work better. So
far, I don't see any difference in performance. I still get a whole lot
of NVP Pauses and other problems as I always have with the MX4000.


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