On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:08:21 -0600 Chad Flynt <hoochster@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you much for your reply, I did do a vanilla 2.6.16-rc1 kernel and > as far as I know selected all the proper agp stuff for my board but ya > know I can easily make a mistake, only reason I didn't do 64bit kernel > etc is cuz didn't know if all of VDR and plugins etc were fully > supported in 64 bit, haven't really kept up with it since I wasn't > running VDR with it! :) But I will give it a go! And as far as X goes, > if I can find a good Video Conferencing product for X I would LOVE to > combine that with VDR or if had to be run in a diff window for the > purpose, that is how my parents see their grandkids, and one of the only > reasons I still have a Winblows box still around! But I would guess > running X would definately give me an advantage to finding such a > thing. Will check it out, running Matrox G550 but do have some NVIDIA > cards around have some friends that keep bugging me about XVMC just > haven't gotten around to it due to refusing to install X! :) But will > try. Thanks again for all the tips, will report back any of my findings. > Actually I have a _very_ similar situation with Matrox G450 and an Athlon64 2800+ on Via K8T800 Pro chipset. I use X.org, but the G450 seems to be awfully slow and I can't even display 720p properly. I always thought the problem was that the card just wasn't fast enough (I didn't really test HDTV on my earlier system), but your experience on a slower system shows that there must be something else going on. I use a completely 64-bit system and I have set the Matrox X drivers to use AGP 4x, but that doesn't help much. Even mga_vid with MPlayer causes about as high CPU usage as Xv output. This seems like some sort of hardware incompatibility, or otherwise bad AGP support for the Via K8T800 - Matrox Gxxx combination. I've been troubled by this for some time, so please tell if you find any solution :) -- Niko Mikkil?
