[mythtv-users] ATI Radeon 9250 Vs Nvidia GeForce 5200

[Kevin Kuphal]

Robin Hill wrote:
> On Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 08:23:05AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>   
>> Bob wrote:
>>     
>>> Mmm, I?m not looking at the ATI driver. I?m trying to find the readme 
>>> files (or the developer mailing list) for the OS drivers, both the 
>>> ?radeon? & ?r200? ones to see if there?s any mention of MPEG.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'll save you time, it's not in there.  It would have to support XvMC 
>> which is what Myth supports for MPEG acceleration and ATI doesn't have 
>> it.  Period.
>>
>>     
> It doesn't have it _yet_.  Dave Airlie is currently working on XvMC for
> ATI.  It looks to be early days yet but I'm keeping my fingers crossed
> on this (since Nvidia cards won't clock low enough to support a
> VGA-SCART output).
>   
I've been waiting almost a year for ATI support for my 9100 IGP 
integrated motherboard chipset.  It still isn't there.   I may be sour 
on ATI but I'm tired of waiting for something with a perfectly good 
alternative exists in Nvidia that works now.

Kevin