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

Chris Porter hoodlum7 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 22:52:04 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 27 August 2008 03:29:27 pm kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
> 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?
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I must also note my cable company, Cox Communications, sends MPEG2 video over 
their network. I am not sure how my system would play H.264.


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