Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Leppert
An update based on my latest fiddling and testing: a) Right drivers for card with your kernel b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver in use c) Proper user of openGL sync for retrace d) Proper settings for deinterlace and, if used, xvmc e) Proper sound settings and handling of 5.1 sound a

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-19 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Paul Leppert wrote: > On 4/3/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > They include: > > > > a) Right drivers for card with your kernel > > b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver in use > > c) Proper user of openGL sync for

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Leppert
On 4/3/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They include: > > a) Right drivers for card with your kernel > b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver in use > c) Proper user of openGL sync for retrace > d) Proper settings for deinterlace and, if used, xvmc > e

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-07 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 07 April 2005 01:37, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 02 April 2005 18:07, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Athlon XP 2600 w/AGP GF4MX, 7174 nvidia driver: > > -Able to play back 720p, can't remember cpu usage. > > About 65%. 50% mythfrontend, 15% X. > > > -Able to play back 1080i w/no deint, c

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-07 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Saturday 02 April 2005 18:07, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Athlon XP 2600 w/AGP GF4MX, 7174 nvidia driver: > -Able to play back 720p, can't remember cpu usage. About 65%. 50% mythfrontend, 15% X. > -Able to play back 1080i w/no deint, can't remember cpu usage. Whoops, forgot this one. I wouldn't run

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-05 Thread Pete
Brad Templeton wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:51:50PM -0500, Pete wrote: I'd like to know what I can do get that kind of performance. I've got an Athlon XP 3000 (512 MB RAM) and an FX 5200 (AGP) running myth .17 and FC3 (everything is from atrpms) where HD is close, but not quite. After a

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sunday 03 April 2005 21:48, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:51:50PM -0500, Pete wrote: > > I'd like to know what I can do get that kind of performance. I've got an > > Athlon XP 3000 (512 MB RAM) and an FX 5200 (AGP) running myth .17 and > > FC3 (everything is from atrpms) whe

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Will Dormann
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 08:57, John Kuhn wrote: is this using Xv or XvMC? Xv in all cases. I plan to play with XvMC a bit later this week, now that I've recompiled against the nvidia 7174 XvMC libs... Let us know if you experience any stability issues with this. I have trie

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 04 April 2005 08:57, John Kuhn wrote: > is this using Xv or XvMC? Xv in all cases. I plan to play with XvMC a bit later this week, now that I've recompiled against the nvidia 7174 XvMC libs... > >I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a > > GeForce 6200 in p

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Hagge
Jarod, This is all GREAT information, especially for folks looking to purchase/upgrade hardware to use MythTV. Hopefully you'll find time to organize this, HTML-ize (table format?) it and put if up on your website. As John Kuhn pointed out, it'd be fantastic if you could re-do the tests with

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should try to build a list of all the things that > can go wrong in > making HD work smoothly. There are many. > > They include: > > > a) Right drivers for card with your kernel > b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver >

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread John Kuhn
is this using Xv or XvMC? --John I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a GeForce 6200 in place of a GeForce 4 MX with an Athlon XP 1800 system, to see if that would give any significant playback performance boost with High Definition recordings. Well, the answer is no

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-03 Thread Brian Foddy
On Sunday 03 April 2005 11:48 pm, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:51:50PM -0500, Pete wrote: > > I'd like to know what I can do get that kind of performance. I've got an > > Athlon XP 3000 (512 MB RAM) and an FX 5200 (AGP) running myth .17 and > > FC3 (everything is from atrpms)

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:51:50PM -0500, Pete wrote: > I'd like to know what I can do get that kind of performance. I've got an > Athlon XP 3000 (512 MB RAM) and an FX 5200 (AGP) running myth .17 and > FC3 (everything is from atrpms) where HD is close, but not quite. After > a lot of hacking to

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-03 Thread Pete
Pete wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a GeForce 6200 in place of a GeForce 4 MX with an Athlon XP 1800 system, to see if that would give any significant playback performance boost with High Definition recordings. Well, the answer is no

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-03 Thread Pete
Jarod Wilson wrote: I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a GeForce 6200 in place of a GeForce 4 MX with an Athlon XP 1800 system, to see if that would give any significant playback performance boost with High Definition recordings. Well, the answer is no, not really,

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-03 Thread Ian Trider
> What about nvidia 5200 that's not AGP, but rather PCI? I'm getting good > SD but no dice on HD using a 5200 and an Air2PC both PCI... am I > somehow swamping the PCI bus? Probably. The DScaler people (excellent program, BTW) say this about PCI and video: -- Can I use any vga card as a display

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-03 Thread Scott Matheson
What about nvidia 5200 that's not AGP, but rather PCI? I'm getting good SD but no dice on HD using a 5200 and an Air2PC both PCI... am I somehow swamping the PCI bus? The CPU pegs on HD playback (720 or 1080) load seems to be split between X and frontend. Video is still quite blocky and no soun

[mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a GeForce 6200 in place of a GeForce 4 MX with an Athlon XP 1800 system, to see if that would give any significant playback performance boost with High Definition recordings. Well, the answer is no, not really, but a bit of a cpu