On Wednesday 14 September 2005 05:45 pm, Brandon Beattie wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:25:23PM +0100, Nick wrote: > > On 14/09/05, Brian McEntire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Video Card: MSI FX5200-TD128LF Geforce FX5200 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X > > > > you're watching. I think a 5200-based card would be fine for HDTV - > > Just to help spread the word, stay away from the NVidia 6xxx and 7xxx > series video cards -- they do not support XV Video Overlay anymore. > NVidia only supports VMR overlay on the 6xxx and 7xxx (newer) cards > which is to replace XV Video Overlay, but there's no support for it > under XFree or Xorg (And I can't find any information on XFree or Xorg > going to at it yet). What this means is you'll get tearing when > watching video and performance playback will be far less than perfect.
Not true at all. Xv is not _just_ the video overlay. If you're getting tearing, turn on the 'Sync to VBlank' options in the XVideo settings in the nvidia-settings app. Myth uses the 'video texture adapter' by default on these newer boards, and the only thing missing is support for adjusting the contrast/brightness/etc through Xv. No tearing, performance is exactly the same as with older hardware, and there's no colorkey to show up at odd times. =) I have a 6600gt in my dev box, and it has absolutely no problem playing HD video. Isaac
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
