[mythtv-users] XvMC on NVidia with Myth .20 (Anyonegetting goodHD off a P4 3

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 15:41:50 UTC 2007


On 1/5/07, Jake Palmer <jakep_82 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > That CPU should work without XvMC.  For reference I have an Athlon 64
> >3200+
> > > and I get ~40% idle while watching 720p and 1080i with Bob.  I scale all
> > > output to 720p and I'm currently running SVN from about 2 weeks ago.
> > >
> >is that with 64bit or 32bit linux?
> >I have an Athlon 64 3000, 32-bit FC4, with the old 87*** nvidia drivers,
> >.19 ATRPMs and w/o XvMC it don't work too good.
>
> I'm running 32-bit Arch Linux and I'm using nvidia 9631.
>
> I've gotta say Arch is excellent for MythTV.  Very light and fast with great
> package management and an extensive repository that is kept very current.

I've got basically the same setup as Jake  (but I'm running Debian)
with basically the same numbers. Needless to say, I'm LOVING the 9xxx
series drivers!

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Steve
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