[mythtv-users] Is this beefy machine really not enough to drive HD at 1080p?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Apr 7 20:29:02 UTC 2008


Scott Harris wrote:
> I've got the following machine and I can't get 1080p
> to play without audio and video getting out of sync
> after about 5 minutes.
> 
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
> (Family: 15, Model: 67, Stepping: 3)
> It's also got 6Gb of RAM.
> 
> The video card is a GeForce 7100 GS.  I've done the
> research and configured the necessary pieces in
> xorg.conf with UseEvents True and also run nvidia-setup
> and set up things that way (I've attached both the
> xorg.conf and the nvidia rc file below).
> 
> Is this machine really not beefy enough to push this
> kind of resolution?  Are the obvious things I'm missing?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Scott

The machine has more than enough power to play back 1080p video. What is 
your video source? Out of sync does not sound like a hardware problem. 
Sounds like a config issue.



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