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

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:28 PM, David Schlenk <mythtv at schdav.org> wrote:

>  On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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> Well unfortunately I've tried w/o XvMC and it can't handle it. It's
> got like virtually no L2 cache and its based on the old mile long
> pipelined P4s so it gets confused easily.
>
> I have an AMD (Athlon 64 3200 maybe?) system in the basement that
> handles HD just fine with or without XvMC.


I've found the FX5200 cards to be as good as good can be for XvMC support.
Anything beyond that has been hit or miss it seems.

Kevin
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