On Monday 09 January 2006 16:55, Adam Propeck wrote: > On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > > Adam Propeck wrote: > > > > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm > > > > wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific > > > > firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the > > > > audigy 2 PCI card I'm using. Also, I guess I was wondering if I need > > > > to do anything specific with the fact that I'm using an Nforce 3 > > > > motherboard. Any tweaks that are recommended? Thanks, -Adam > > > > > > I think the problem is that fundamentally, the ATI driver does not > > > provide hardware accelerated MPEG-2 playback and your Sempron cannot > > > handle the software decoding without choking. If you had an Nvidia > > > card that supported XvMC you could enable that which would activate the > > > hardware decoding and probably give you the performance you expect. > > > > > > Kevin > > > > I'm going to have to agree, unless someone else is running a Sempron 3100 > > and > > able to do live HDTV I'm going to have to think this is the case. I know > > my > > Athlon64 3200+ has no room to spare playing live HD, I can easily imagine > > a > > Sempron of lower clock speed having more trouble. > > LiveTV requires a bit more resources from mythbackend and mythfrontend > > from > > what I've noticed. > > > > Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI Fire > GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope. >
AGP? DVI? does it have the pinkbar issue at 1080i? I'm serious, I don't use XvMC, nvidia doesn't do interlaced on DVI and it looks like you are using 1280x720p. email me off list -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users