[mythtv-users] specific nvidia AGP card that can do HD playback?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Wed May 14 16:23:06 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:04 AM, David Schlenk <mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:
> I have a KWorld ATSC 110 that works great except one of my frontends
> has an nvidia 6200 that apparently doesn't have the chops to do HD
> playback via XvMC. I've tried multiple versions of the driver and a
> few different distros and it just won't keep up. So I'm looking for a
> very specific recommnedation for a cheap nvidia AGP card that will
> handle ATSC content. I don't really do any x264 content. Here's my
> system info:
>
> CPU:
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 6
> model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz
> stepping        : 5
> cpu MHz         : 3324.021
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 6
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx
> lm constant_tsc up pebs bts sync_rdtsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16
> xtpr lahf_lm
> bogomips        : 6653.10
> clflush size    : 64
>
> mobo: Intel D865GSAL
>
> 2GB DDR 400
>
> nvidia card I have that doesn't work: PNY Verto GeForce 6200 Video
> Card (VCG62128APB) which lspci says:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce
> 6200] (rev a1)
>
> I'd like to be able to get this machine playing HD back without having
> to replace the mobo/cpu/ram. I know i'm using a celeron and i should
> be punished but what can i say it was cheap, and so am I.
>
> Any tips would be great, including "i have that card and this is how i
> got it to work"
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

Unfortunately you probably will not find my answer particularly
helpful... It may be more of an XvMC problem that anything else. I'm
doing HD playback on a 6200 AGP 128MB without XvMC and it works fine.
And I have it working on a 1.8Ghz Sempron... I know CPU speed isn't a
good indication of performance like it used to be, but I have a hard
time believing that my CPU would be able to do HD playback while yours
could not.

Richard


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