[mythtv-users] HDTV playback & GF4

[Matt Porter]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:55:30PM -0500, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> The difference between -march=i686 with gcc 2.96 (RH 7.3, what my laptop ran
> until Tuesday) and -march=pentium4 with gcc 3.3.2 (Gentoo, the laptop's new
> distro) is insane...  xine can come "close" to decoding 1080i with a GF4MX and
> XvMC with only a 1.7 GHz P4-M - Dropped frames are not very common.  Previously
> it was horrible.

Another datapoint: XP2000+ w/ GF4 MX440 and latest stable nvidia drivers
using XvMC is rock solid and no frame drops on 1080i streams.

-Matt