[mythtv-users] HDTV on Radeon 9600 versus Nvidia 5200

[James C. Dastrup]

>> 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.
>
>James, thanks for the correction. That said,
><URL:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_HDTV> mentions
>ATI only briefly. We list readers know that that XvMC is a
>temperamental beast at best, but surely it does not help
>MythTV-on-ATI's case that
><URL:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC>'s sole mention of ATI
>is as part of a two-sentence dismissal!
>
>I am quite curious to hear others' reports; just how *does* HDTV from
>a Radeon 9600 compare to that from an Nvidia 5200 that is not using
>XvMC? Better? Worse? The same?
>

I have switched back and forth between a nVidia 5200 and ATI 9600 and
I could tell no difference between picture quality or CPU usage between
the two cards; output via VGA and DVI cable to 61" DLP at 720p.

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