Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI Fire GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">
adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote:<br>
> Adam Propeck wrote:<br>> > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm<br>> > wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific<br>> > firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the
<br>> > audigy 2 PCI card I'm using. Also, I guess I was wondering if I need<br>> > to do anything specific with the fact that I'm using an Nforce 3<br>> > motherboard. Any tweaks that are recommended? Thanks, -Adam
<br>><br>> I think the problem is that fundamentally, the ATI driver does not<br>> provide hardware accelerated MPEG-2 playback and your Sempron cannot<br>> handle the software decoding without choking. If you had an Nvidia card
<br>> that supported XvMC you could enable that which would activate the<br>> hardware decoding and probably give you the performance you expect.<br>><br>> Kevin<br><br>I'm going to have to agree, unless someone else is running a Sempron 3100 and
<br>able to do live HDTV I'm going to have to think this is the case. I know my<br>Athlon64 3200+ has no room to spare playing live HD, I can easily imagine a<br>Sempron of lower clock speed having more trouble.<br>LiveTV requires a bit more resources from mythbackend and mythfrontend from
<br>what I've noticed.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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