[mythtv-users] HDTV MythTV parts list

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 14 21:59:56 UTC 2005


Brandon Beattie wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:25:23PM +0100, Nick wrote:
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>>On 14/09/05, Brian McEntire <brian.mcentire at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Video Card: MSI FX5200-TD128LF Geforce FX5200 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X
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>>you're watching. I think a 5200-based card would be fine for HDTV -
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>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.
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That's a good tip. Which   nvidia card should be used -- or, what's the 
best one - especially for HDTV. My be/fe is a AMD3200 running in 64bit mode.
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