[mythtv-users] Is there a difference between FX5200 and other nvidia cards?

[Chad]

On 2/10/06, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>  Craig Partin wrote:
>
>
>  The FX5200 seems very popular on the list so I ask:
>
> Does this card offer anything that the MX440 or MX4000 doesn't? I
> don't care about gaming but do care about HDTV playback. Is there any
> reason to upgrade for myth and HD?
>
>
>  If you're using XvMC, I believe the MX440, MX4000, and FX5200 and pretty
> much all the GeForce 4 cards are very similar. I can playback 1080i
> HDTV clips on my MX440 with XvMC no problem.
>
>  I have an MX4000 which doesn't play 1080i too well without XvMC (AMD64bit
> 3200), With XvMC it plays perfectly fine except the frames jump when the OSD
> is present. This doesn't happen on all HD content, just some. And the OSD is
> B&W.
>
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I'm sure it was just me, but I couldn't get my mx440 to work with XvMC
at all, so I grabbed an FX5200 and it worked almost out the box
perfectly.

Chad