Niko Mikkila wrote: >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? > >_______________________________________________ >vdr mailing list >vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > > Will do, glad to hear you run the same type of chipset, might be hitting you up on any problems I face on the 64bit setup. Never ran VDR on 64bit yet, hope you don't mind. I assume you are doing DVI out to your TV for the HDTV part of it. Cuz I never see my projector truly say 720p or whatnot when I tune to a HD Channel, just looks better. Or is that something I have to tell xine to do? Anyways, I started the 64 bit install during lunch will finish it up when I get home this evening. Thanks again for all your help, looking forward to making it work. I did put my NVIDIA 5200 in to attempt the XVMC but due to you having issues with your Matrox, I will throw it in there too and see what happens between the two.
