On Monday 09 January 2006 22:51, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > >On Monday 09 January 2006 21:06, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > >>Adam Propeck wrote: > >>>I find it frustrating that this is a Linux only issue. If I had > >>>trouble playing an 1080i stream on a Windows box with a 3 ghz proc, > >>>I'd go crazy. Why is it that Linux has so much trouble with this? I > >>>would think that it would be an easy thing like enabling the correct > >>>video driver or something. I thought maybe my AGP GART stuff could > >>>have been set incorrectly or something. > >> > >>Blame ATI. On Windows you are probably working with accelerated > >>drivers. ATI has no such counterpart for Linux. > >> > >>Kevin > > > >but apparently I'm using too much CPU with an nvidia card... > > Nvidia isn't any better unless you're using XvMC. I've got a GeForce > 6200 in my windows box (Athlon 1800) and it dies playing a 1080i content > clip I have for testing. Play it with the Nvidia Decoder trial from > their website, and it is rock solid playback. I'm guessing that no > matter what, unless your video card drivers are *really* supplying the > accelerated playback, you're always going to suffer until you get > excessive CPUs. > > Kevin
right, but someone was saying his P4 2.4G plays 1080i at 50% cpu with no XvMC, whereas my Athlon64 3200+ with no XvMC uses more around 95%... -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
