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

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/15/06, Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> wrote:
> 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, what percentage of the CPU does X use and what percentage is
Myth using? My 3200+ handles deinterlacing 1080i fine, but I've got a
FX5200, I'm trying to get a handle on how much CPU the ATI Xorg driver
uses compared to the nvidia drivers.

thanks!

-- 
Steve
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