[mythtv-users] My experience with HD video and the Nvidia 6200TC

[Jonathan Rogers]

James C. Dastrup wrote:
>> I am able to happily view high-definition (1080i and 720p) video
>> through MythTV. Here are the ingredients:
>>
>> * A powerful-enough frontend. As I understand it, my Pentium 4 3.0GHz
>>  frontend/backend is just over the line in terms of having enough
>>  horsepower to display HD without XvMC. This is important, as I'll
>>  get to later.
>> * A supported video card. For HD, this generally means an Nvidia 5200
>>  (AGP) or 5300 (PCI Express; rare), or later; I have an Nvidia 6200
>>  TC with 128MB. ATI owners who want to display HD (as opposed to
>>  standard-definition) are, from what I understand, out of luck due to
>>  driver-support issues.
> 
> ATI owners with a 9600 AGP or above and 128 MB video RAM will find
> HD works just fine using the fglrx drivers.  There is much documentation
> on the wiki and other places that no problem exists.

I am currently using a Radeon 8500 with the X.org 7.0 radeon driver and
an LCD TV connected via DVI. It works fine except that the Athlon64
3700+ CPU is sometimes overloaded playing and deinterlacing 1080i. I
expect that to change when I switch the CPU to an Athlon 64 X2 3800+.

Jonathan Rogers