[mythtv] performance

[Monty Walls]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:57:27 -0800
"Kevin Bowen" <kevin@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> >The big thing about the Gatos drivers is the improved Xv support.  As far
> >as AIW, I would avoid it still (due to the Tv-out support issues).
> OK, I'm a linux newbie... googled for 'Xv' - are you talking about the image
> editing program? If so, how does it relate to myth? or is this a case of
> mistaken acronyms?
> 

Xv aka Xvideo (like hardware image scaling support).

You also want the dri developement tree parts for the radeon to get better
OpenGL support (Mythepg seems to want to direct rendering).

> >On the SoundBlaster Live, SBLive has a history of causing PCI problems
> >on all vendors motherboards (VIA just being the most affected).
> Can you point me to more info on this? I've been using the Live for quite
> some time and have gotten fairly familiar with the community at large's
> views on the card... I do amateur/pro/audio/recording work and have found
> the card great for my purposes (its basicly a rebadged, rebundled version of
> a card which sells under pro audio monickers for 10x more) and isn't known
> to have any troubling PCI issues... at least under windows... are the
> problems you speak of linux-specific? Stability issues? I've had the card
> running very stable under redhat so far, so I'd have no reason to switch to
> something else unless I discovered it had been implicated in performance
> issues.
> 

Problems are mostly Windows specific (also check out 
http://www.kxproject.spb.ru/docs.php?language=en)

There were lots of tech articles last year on it.

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