[mythtv-users] HD Video Quality

[David Brieck Jr.]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:16 AM, MrVining
> <myth-user-discussion at mrvining.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well now that I got aspect ratio fixed, I need to work on video quality.
>>  My SD playback seems to be fine but for HD I seem to be running into a lack
>> of performance and I don't know where to start.  I honestly thought this
>> hardware would be plenty for HD playback, but maybe I need to adjust
>> settings or something.  Here is my setup:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128072
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072
>> 1 Gig of ram
>> On board video for now (that will change quickly if that is the issue).
>>
>> I guess I'm just shocked that TiVo can put out such great video with such
>> crap hardware (I know that there is some hardware decoding, I guess I need
>> to figure that out for my system?)
>>
>> Thank you for your time and response in advance.
>>
>> Eric
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>
> I think  your hardware should be fine for HD.  Why do you say it isn't?
>  What settings?  Have you tried slim as the setting just to get a benchmark?
>  I have a AMC 5400+ which isn't much more if any more processing power and
> it is fine.  It doesn't work on CPU-- however but does work on CPU++ if you
> can believe that.
> Allen
>

I agree, I have very similar hardware. Have you look through the wiki?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidiaProprietaryDriver#Choppy_video.2FHigh_CPU_Usage