[mythtv-users] specific nvidia AGP card that can do HD playback?

[David Schlenk]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:04 AM, David Schlenk <mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:
>> I have a KWorld ATSC 110 that works great except one of my frontends
>> has an nvidia 6200 that apparently doesn't have the chops to do HD
>> playback via XvMC. I've tried multiple versions of the driver and a
>> few different distros and it just won't keep up. So I'm looking for a
>> very specific recommnedation for a cheap nvidia AGP card that will
>> handle ATSC content. I don't really do any x264 content. Here's my
>> system info:
>>
>> CPU:
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 15
>> model           : 6
>> model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz
>> stepping        : 5
>> cpu MHz         : 3324.021
>> cache size      : 512 KB
>> fdiv_bug        : no
>> hlt_bug         : no
>> f00f_bug        : no
>> coma_bug        : no
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 6
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
>> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
>> lm constant_tsc up pebs bts sync_rdtsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16
>> xtpr lahf_lm
>> bogomips        : 6653.10
>> clflush size    : 64
>>
>> mobo: Intel D865GSAL
>>
>> 2GB DDR 400
>>
>> nvidia card I have that doesn't work: PNY Verto GeForce 6200 Video
>> Card (VCG62128APB) which lspci says:
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce
>> 6200] (rev a1)
>>
>> I'd like to be able to get this machine playing HD back without having
>> to replace the mobo/cpu/ram. I know i'm using a celeron and i should
>> be punished but what can i say it was cheap, and so am I.
>>
>> Any tips would be great, including "i have that card and this is how i
>> got it to work"
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>
> Unfortunately you probably will not find my answer particularly
> helpful... It may be more of an XvMC problem that anything else. I'm
> doing HD playback on a 6200 AGP 128MB without XvMC and it works fine.
> And I have it working on a 1.8Ghz Sempron... I know CPU speed isn't a
> good indication of performance like it used to be, but I have a hard
> time believing that my CPU would be able to do HD playback while yours
> could not.
>
> Richard
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Well unfortunately I've tried w/o XvMC and it can't handle it. It's
got like virtually no L2 cache and its based on the old mile long
pipelined P4s so it gets confused easily.

I have an AMD (Athlon 64 3200 maybe?) system in the basement that
handles HD just fine with or without XvMC.