[mythtv-users] mythfrontend HDTV performance on recent AMD chipsets (was Re: X2 5000 enough to play HD?)

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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Chris Porter <hoodlum7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am running a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H with an X2 4200 and 2GB of RAM and a
> Nvidia 6600 GPU w/ proprietary drivers. HD play back is excellent. CPU
> utilization is almost nothing playing back 720p or 1080i video via firewire.
> Early on when I first setup my system for HD in order to get smooth playback
> I had to enable aggressive sound card buffering and one other sound feature
> which is not normally checked. But since then with several MB changes in the
> same configuration I have no issues playing back HD content.

This is virtually identical, hardware-wise to my configuration.  Hope
you don't mind if I ask a few questions:

What distro are you using?  Also, is it 64-bit or 32-bit?

Did you compile your MythTV from source?

I'm assuming you're not using XvMC?  Or possibly you are?  Which
version of the nVidia driver are you using?