[mythtv-users] My experience with HD video and the Nvidia 6200TC

[James C. Dastrup]

>I am able to happily view high-definition (1080i and 720p) video
>through MythTV. Here are the ingredients:
>
>* A powerful-enough frontend. As I understand it, my Pentium 4 3.0GHz
>  frontend/backend is just over the line in terms of having enough
>  horsepower to display HD without XvMC. This is important, as I'll
>  get to later.
>* A supported video card. For HD, this generally means an Nvidia 5200
>  (AGP) or 5300 (PCI Express; rare), or later; I have an Nvidia 6200
>  TC with 128MB. ATI owners who want to display HD (as opposed to
>  standard-definition) are, from what I understand, out of luck due to
>  driver-support issues.

ATI owners with a 9600 AGP or above and 128 MB video RAM will find
HD works just fine using the fglrx drivers.  There is much documentation
on the wiki and other places that no problem exists.
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