[mythtv-users] Radeon 8500 hdtv questions...

[James Dastrup]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:52 -0700, Mike wrote:
> James Dastrup wrote:
> >
> > If you want to use ATI, you need at least a 9600 and a P4 2.8 (or AMD
> > equivalent).  You'll find that it works just fine, and you will have
> > less problems than with the nVidia cards because there is less to
> > configure - no opengl, no XvMC, no recompiling Myth every time you
> > change the driver version, etc.
> >
> >   
> 
> Or you just don't configure them to begin with and you have exactly what 
> your talking about... A default compile doesn't have opengl or xvmc enabled.


Then... what's the big advantage of nVidia over ATI, if you're not using
hardware acceleration? None, except for personal preference.