I don't know that anyone ever responded to this for you Jim:<br><br>A 3200+ is just fine. I'm running only HD OTA stuff (no cable, no sat.) but there's no issue with a 3000+ AMD chip. I have pretty much the same board you do (ASUS A8V-N or something like that...it's the PCI-E version) and i'm running an NVidia 6200 (PCI-E not AGP since I couldn't find a board with AGP on it for a price I liked).
<br><br>My prior machine before this upgrade was a Pentium IV 2800 HT processor, I was getting sound sync problems on ABC (sound up to 4 - 5 seconds off in recordings and live TV...didn't happen when played through Xine)...however after the upgrade to the 3000+ everything runs smooth as silk...now If I could just get my damn keyboard to work correctly before the wife gets home from Colorado, i'll be a very happy man with a very happy wife...I just found the auto-commercial skip feature in the setup last night...boy will she be surprised. :)
<br><br>--Doug<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Shank</b> <<a href="mailto:jim.shank@gmail.com">jim.shank@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;">
Thanks for the great feedback. Is the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ considered<br>underpowered for this application?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org
</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean<br>Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:34 PM<br>To: Discussion about mythtv<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] TiVo Convert Experience - HDTV Video Card
<br>Recommendation<br><br>On 05/02/2007 05:10 PM, Jim Shank wrote:<br>> want to take<br>> full advantage of 1080p on the new TV which leads me to asking for a<br>> recommendation for a video card that will properly drive the new display.
<br>><br>> I can't begin to explain the suffering I went through in order to get the<br>> ATI card to work at 640x480 via S-Video on my existing TV and still have<br>> bowed edges to the picture. I have spent the last 5-hours Googling MythTV
<br>HD<br>> and have determined that an nVidia card is the way to go.<br><br>Yes. For MythTV, I see it as: ATI = pain; NVIDIA = bliss.<br><br>> The FX5200 seems<br>> to be the de-facto standard but there are some complaints about not being
<br>> able to keep up with 1080i/p.<br><br>I've done 1080p output (using everything from PVR-x50-encoded 480i60 to<br>OTA HDTV at 720p60 and 1080i60) on a GF4MX440, a GF5200, GF6200, and a<br>GF7800GTX. As far as TV goes, they're all fine.
<br><br>If you have an underpowered CPU and use XvMC for HDTV, you'll want at<br>least a 5200 (and anything more won't really help).<br><br>The main difference comes into play on the OpenGL. The menu-based<br>effects are not a problem for any of the cards. However, for the GL
<br>transitions in MythGallery, the MX440 didn't even come close. The 7800<br>is more than enough for these, but it's really overkill in the grand<br>scheme of things (i.e. the GL transitions aren't worth the $--I just
<br>happened to get it for another project, so...).<br><br>Also, the MX440 required me to scale Goom to a quarter size for<br>reasonable performance. The 7800 works with it (and all of Project M<br>visualizations) at full res.
<br><br>> The 6200 is rumored to handle the resolution<br>> better but appears to have problems with video-overlay namely the lack of<br>> OSD colors.<br><br>However, as someone who just replaced a GF4MX440 with a GF6200, I highly
<br>recommend getting a 6200. The main reason is because it will be "one<br>step later" before NVIDIA "end-of-life's" the card. Besides, if you're<br>a good shopper, you can find one for the same cost as a 5200. While I
<br>can't tell you when the 6200 will become a "legacy" GPU--let alone when<br>the 5200 will be--since they're both the same price, it's almost<br>definitely going to cost you more to get a 5200 that you'll want to
<br>upgrade once it's legacy (assumes you upgrade your kernel and/or video<br>drivers every once in a while).<br><br>The lack of playback picture controls on the 6x00 and above is only an<br>issue if you're the type who likes to change
<br>brightness/contrast/color/hue while watching TV. You can use<br>nvidia-settings to change them however you like and leave them there,<br>but the main difference is that approach affects the GUI (i.e. X) as<br>well as video playback. (I, personally, happen to be an all-defaults
<br>kind of guy, so it's not an issue for me.)<br><br>And, the 6200 should be fine for the GL transitions in MythGallery as<br>well as the visualizations in MythMusic/xine/xmms/...<br><br>> It also seems that anything above that is a waste since this is
<br>> a 2D application and the system won't be used for anything beyond that. I<br>> would appreciate a recommendation please.<br>><br><br>Basically, yes--with the exception of OpenGL transitions in the gallery.
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