[mythtv-users] Why the need for playback settings

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 03:49:05 Marc Sherman wrote:
>
> Because by tinkering, you can get it _better_ than it gets in windows or
> STBs, for some definitions of better. For example, by tinkering, you
> could get reasonable video on hardware that is _much_ less powerful than
> required for windows video. 



Ummm - no. Absolutlety not. The state of video playback on windows is far 
better than linux, purely because of the drivers. I can get hardware 
accellrated video far beyond XvMC and bob2 with any cheapo nvidia or ati 
card/mobo on windows. That includes H/W accel MPEG4 playback which is 
impossible under linux.

On linux its a stuggle to get XvMC working, assuming it even supports the 
chipset of the card in question - for example, *not* the nv  6100.




-- 
Lindsay