[mythtv-users] ATI Catalyst Version Numbers

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Fri Apr 24 18:39:18 UTC 2009


Owen Townend wrote:
> 
> I'm using an AMD 4850e, another of their low power procs.
> It plays HDTV without issue (1080i) and will play _most_ of the test h264
> videos I've tried from http://www.h264info.com/clips.html though it has
> been a while since I tried.
> 
> I haven't been using aticonfig but have instead used triel and error
> to build up an xorg.conf that works for me.
> 
> The tv I'm using is a 1080p LCD and I am using audio over HDMI.
> The tv only has two speakers, hence stereo.
> The audio works fine, it has the occasional hickup when starting
> or stopping playing (e.g. change channel) I have a workaround[0]
> that is not ideal, but works.
> 
> I'm currently using the Catalyst 8.3 drivers which Ubuntu Hardy is
> providing. I have not moved forward primarily because of the
> necessary downtime.

Well my first attempts at HD on this box haven't been successful. There is a 
noticeable lag in playing back HD content, CPU runs at about 80%. Of course 
this is a 768p screen so the frontend needs to downscale the output.

Would you share your xorg.conf? I'd like to see what you've done.

HDMI audio also isn't working. I just get noise. Gotta carefully go through 
the various wiki pages on digital audio.

Thanks,
Kirk Bocek


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