[mythtv-users] can Nvidia 7800GS play HD?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/21/2013 13:52, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 10:34 -0600, jedi wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:40:45AM -0500, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:
>>> I have an old computer I am trying to make into a mythfrontend.  The
>>> video card is a BFG overclocked Nvidia 7800GS in a 4 X AGP slot.  I am
>>
>>      If you are going to use that video card, then you need to have a CPU
>> that can handle the heavy lifting involved in video decoding. It sounds
>> like your CPU is not quite up to the task.
>>
> That is the last AGP card that Nvidia made.  So, I can't improve on
> that.  The processor is an AMD Athlon 1800+.  It may end up having to be
> an SD frontend only.
>

My 2500+ was right about at the limit for ATSC playback. You're going to 
be hard pressed to use an 1800+ without XvMC, and MythTV dropped support 
for that several versions ago.