On 11/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">N Dugas</b> <<a href="mailto:normdugas@yahoo.ca">normdugas@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steve Adeff wrote:<br>> On Monday 21 November 2005 16:28, N Dugas wrote:<br>><br>>>I've got a myth box that I'd like to do HD playback. It's connected to<br>>>a DCT6412. I'd like to re-use a spare ATI 9550 with 256M for this. Is
<br>>>this possible? Every thing I found suggests I use Nvidia due to<br>>>superior drivers.<br>>><br>>>Thanks,<br>>>Norm<br>><br>><br>> what processor?<br>><br>> Steve<br>>
<br>Currently: Athlon XP 1800 but I've got an Athlon XP 3000 that may make<br>it's way into that PC. I'm using the onboard video for playback<br>currently but HD stutters too much to make it watchable.<br><br>This pc:<br>
Asus A7N8X-VM/400<br>1G OCZ Dual DDR Ram<br>Athlon XP 1800 CPU<br>PCI IEEE1394 card<br><br>DCT-6412 connected via 1394<br><br>Thanks,<br>Norm</blockquote><div><br>
My personal experience has been that nvidia cards work better with myth
than radeons. A lot of people have had success with Radeons so I
don't want to give them a bad reputation. Your onboard video will
work with xvmc, which drastically lowers the cpu requirements for hd
decoding. I can do it easily on an Athlon XP 2000 with xvmc
enabled. You would need to use the nvidia binary drivers
though. I recommend sticking with the onboard nvidia stuff.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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