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at the time I bought a hd4850 ATI was claiming linux support, and also UVD support was announced.

now we know what it was worth

It's not about bridgman here, however I think the less ati talks...

ati is just ruining it's reputation

just don't say there will be support when there is no timeline and anything
it's almost like ati lied
you can say what you want about how it was anounced but...

with the proprietary driver


xrandr --newmode "720x576_50i" 26.57 720 736 808 896 576 577 580 593 -hsync +vsync interlace
xrandr --addmode default 720x576_50i
xrandr --output default --mode...

I tried something else with proprietary drivers, I didn't came back to opensource drivers since they don't have vdpau.


$ gtf 1920 1080 50

# 1920x1080 @ 50.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 55.60 kHz;...

since I have windows that's what I did, though at first I used a 6600gt in the other pciexpress slot, but now it's in another computer.

the overscan on the TV is a part of the spefication I think
I don't see the point of default overscan on TVs, since 1080p is 1920x1080 and that the TV display really have 1920x1080, and that...

I didn't tried for a few month, but my tearing happened on mplayer on ubuntu intrepid

I disagree !! If there is no option to turn it off, then, there shouldn't be a downscaling at all. ( sorry :D )

I mean anyaway, which noob will install linux with an ATI card ?
It will not work...

Without underscan you would have as well a lot of people complaining that they can't see the whole desktop, because almost all HD TVs are overscanning by default, until you disable pixel per pixel...

I don't see where my wording implies renderer acceleration :)

However I still can tell you I can't play a 1080p video with a q9300 and opengl acceleration, while with xv it's ok. (but there is...

is it hard to read the topic subject ?

for a divx yes, opengl will work but not for HD !!!

thanks, but at the begining, in case vdpau is not reliable or implemented I prefer know what I need to fallback.

Hi,

I am wondering what is the minimal cpu to play 1080p movies.
is E5200 enough or should I go for E7400 ?

this issue should have been the top priority

this solution is useless with HD movies

I was able to watch fullhd movies with a 6600GT, now with a hd4850 I just can't

and it's now 6 months I run windows instead of linux, because of ATI.
...

actually I run windows since hd4850 video drivers sucks
however I think I posted modelines I used here already
I will let you know

If you believe opensource drivers can do it then just show us how.

Any input is welcome, but at this point, theorical asumptions on hardware you don't own doesn't help much.

Even if the TV is...

my tv is doing real 24p, so does the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers

we don't care how the TV displays it, what we know is that it needs 24hz input, and that proprietary drivers are doing...

I tried by adding modelines directly in xorg.conf and it didn't worked.
At best Xorg and xvidtune showed it was in 48hz, however it was like it was in 50hz, with juddering during playback.