[mythtv-users] HDTV playback & GF4

[Nate Thompson]

> Another datapoint: XP2000+ w/ GF4 MX440 and latest >stable nvidia drivers
using XvMC is rock solid and >no frame drops on 1080i streams.

That's good news to hear. After reading some of these posts I was afraid my
2600+ wouldn't be up to the challenge. What driver version is considered to
be the latest stable release?

Nate
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Matt Porter
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:47 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV playback & GF4

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:55:30PM -0500, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> The difference between -march=i686 with gcc 2.96 (RH 7.3, what my 
> laptop ran until Tuesday) and -march=pentium4 with gcc 3.3.2 (Gentoo, 
> the laptop's new
> distro) is insane...  xine can come "close" to decoding 1080i with a 
> GF4MX and XvMC with only a 1.7 GHz P4-M - Dropped frames are not very 
> common.  Previously it was horrible.



-Matt