On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 23:39 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > On the box I used until recently, compiling in XVMC support helped > enough to make *some* HDTV programs watchable. Most shows still > stuttered. The box had an Athlon 64 3200+ and a GeForce 6200. SDTV and > analog worked very well.
Yowsers. I'm getting new hardware, but it's frustrating that I can get mplalyer to work OK, but can't tweak mythtv to get by with my current system. > As a workaround, I set MythTV to transcode all HDTV programs > automatically to a lower resolution. The transcoding takes a long time, > but the real problem with that solution is that when the signal fades, > the transcoder isn't very forgiving and drops a lot of the recording. That's what I'm doing now. Or just recording with myth and then watching with mplayer. > FWIW, the new 5200+ CPU with a GeForce 7300 plays and scales HDTV in > real time with only 30% CPU utilization, meaning approximately 60% of 1 > core is in use. Interestingly, XVMC doesn't reduce the utilization. > I have a Radeon 9600pro, so XvMC isn't an option. I think I can scrounge up an old AGP Nvidia card and try XvMC. Thanks! Barry Roberts /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
