[mythtv-users] Video Card Usage

[Marc]

> If I remember right, the old card I am going to use is a Gainward
> branded Geforce 2 with 64MB of ram (could be 32 though).  Would this be
> able to handle the decoding job?  I really do not want to leave it to
> the CPU.
> 
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> From: "Marc" <drayson at net1plus.com>
> Date: Sunday, Oct 14, 2007 11:52 am
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Card Usage
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> OK.  I have an NVIDIA card that is a few years old that was a nice card
> and has svideo out... Would it be better to use that?  I need to keep
> the load off the CPU as it is only 600mhz...
> 
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> On Sunday 14 October 2007 13:02:11 Timothy M. Admire wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am in the process of putting together a MythTV system with a
> > Hauppage PVR-350 in order to do the encoding and decoding of the
> > MPEG-2 video.  I am wondering if, since this card does the encoding
> > and output of the video, will the video card itself be doing much
> > work?  My GeForce card has an onboard fan, but I'd like to disconnect
> > that if the card is not going to be using much horsepower.
> 
> Note that support for video output via the PVR-350 is slated to go away
> at some point. Thus, although this solution will work in the short
> term, it might not be wise to plan on using this configuration for the
> long term.
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> 
> Tim,
> 
> What type of nVidia card? We need more information.
> I have an GeForce 5700LE with a P4 3.2E CPU.
> I was able to do full HD off of the CPU without issue, using 80%+ of
> the CPU. I just recently switched to use XvMC offloading the video
> processing to the GeForce card and am now using between 20 and 40% of
> the CPU power. I haven't checked what I use with SD recordings yet but
> I would believe that its down to around 5 - 15%.
> 
> Marc
> 
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I haven't used a GeForce 2 for anything in years. I believe it is too slow
for Myth.
What type of CPU do you have?

This page on the Wiki http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Todd_Coffey says
he had a 1GHz AMD Duron with a Geforce2 MX400 and it was too slow.
May want to talk a look at a power powerful video card, I recommend a
GeForce 5700LE or higher myself.
You can pick up a 6200 card, for cheap if you know where to look.