On Wednesday 23 November 2005 18:31, N Dugas wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:13, Tom Dombrosky wrote: > >>On 11/22/05, N Dugas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Steve Adeff wrote: > >>>>On Monday 21 November 2005 16:28, N Dugas wrote: > >>>>>I've got a myth box that I'd like to do HD playback. It's connected to > >>>>>a DCT6412. I'd like to re-use a spare ATI 9550 with 256M for this. Is > >>>>>this possible? Every thing I found suggests I use Nvidia due to > >>>>>superior drivers. > >>>>> > >>>>>Thanks, > >>>>>Norm > >>>> > >>>>what processor? > >>>> > >>>>Steve > >>> > >>>Currently: Athlon XP 1800 but I've got an Athlon XP 3000 that may make > >>>it's way into that PC. I'm using the onboard video for playback > >>>currently but HD stutters too much to make it watchable. > >>> > >>>This pc: > >>>Asus A7N8X-VM/400 > >>>1G OCZ Dual DDR Ram > >>>Athlon XP 1800 CPU > >>>PCI IEEE1394 card > >>> > >>>DCT-6412 connected via 1394 > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>>Norm > >> > >>My personal experience has been that nvidia cards work better with myth > >>than radeons. A lot of people have had success with Radeons so I don't > >> want to give them a bad reputation. Your onboard video will work with > >> xvmc, which drastically lowers the cpu requirements for hd decoding. I > >> can do it easily on an Athlon XP 2000 with xvmc enabled. You would need > >> to use the nvidia binary drivers though. I recommend sticking with the > >> onboard nvidia stuff. > >> > >>Tom > > > > Use the onboard GeForce, drop the XP3000 in as well ;-) > > > > With the 3000 you won't need XvmC, but like what Tom said it will reduce > > CPU requirements. The faster CPU can be used for commercial detect, etc. > > > > Steve > One more question came to mind. This onboard video is GeForce 4MX. > Will this be ok? I'm going to try XvmC to see what the results are soon > (hopefully tonight). > > Norm
Should be fine, might not get interlaced output support (don't remember if the GeForce4 GPU supports it) but XvMC is there. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users