[mythtv-users] Which video card to buy?

[Raphael]

Mitch Gore wrote:
> 
>     Interesting, so a 5200 literally can't do 1080i? I'm slightly surprised;
>     I would have assumed that between a 5200 and a 6200 there would be very
>     little difference in mpeg2 decoding speed. But since Norm has a P4
>     3.2GHz and it can't play 1080i even though the processor is barely
>     used,
>       it seems like it must be the graphics card.
>     I have a 5200 that can play 1080i with XVMC. Only problem is XVMC
>     randomly causes my system to lock up, causing mythfrontend to need a
>     restart, or worse the machine needs a hard reset. I haven't bothered to
>     look into sorting that out yet.
> 
>     Raphael
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> Let me be more clear on what i mean.  the 5200 and 6200 both can decode 
> 1080i video with XvMC nearly the same speed (or offload from the proc).
> 
> what i was referring to was display resolution.  I was unable to get the 
> 5200 to output 1080p to my display.  720p worked just fine.  With a 6200 
> 1080p was set just fine.
> 
> Hope you see what i am saying now.
> 
> Mitchell
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ahh yeah, looks like I misinterpreted the whole thread. The OP wasn't 
having problems with decode either - he was talking about 1080i output. 
My TV does 1366x768, so I haven't tried using a 1080i modeline with the 
5200.
oooooops