[mythtv-users] HD success!

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Thu Mar 22 22:08:22 UTC 2007


William Munson wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>   
>> I have 3 front ends in my system; one is based on an Athlon XP 2000+, 
>> one is based on an Athlon 64 3200+, and one is based on an Intel PIII 
>> (?) 1.4 GHz CPU with crappy i180 video.
>>
>> The last one has not a chance of handling HD, but the Athlon XP 2000+ 
>> does quite well.  There is some chattering with liveTV, but recorded 
>> shows work well and CPU usage is around 65%.  Since we don't want live 
>> TV anyway, I really don't care.  I typically take the Watch TV option 
>> out of the menu altogether.
>>   
>>     
> Would you mind passing along the version of the nvidia drivers you have 
> loaded on your Athlon XP system. I am having stability issues with a 
> 2200+ and think its related to the video driver I have installed.
>   
Let me get home and fire it up....  I think it is 9746 but I'm not 
sure.  The Myth video card is a basic 5200.

I'm going to try and post the exact config, including mobo and all, as 
it is a pretty amazing machine.

--Yan


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