On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:08:21 -0600 Chad Flynt hoochster@sofnet.com 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 Mikkilä