Hi Myth Dev !

KUDOS for incredible piece of r5f1 software.
Q: is there any reason for keeping Nvidia 8776 in r5f1 instead of 9775 ?

Stability and legacy hardware. There's a bunch of older cards that they dropped support for when they went from the 7xxx series to the 8xxx series, and more when they went from 8xxx to 9xxx.

You can upgrade to 1.0-9775 easily enough using the directions on the wiki.

Seems unnecessary, but I'm not familiar with the complexities of building a distro.
But IMO, it would be a lot more convenient to be able to have decent HD playback out of the box, without having to download drivers, get the kernel source, recompile, etc.. Of course, with out the scripts and knowledge here, it would be impossible for most folks.

Couldn't there be an option in the install, like we have now for the older processors?

[ ] Install 7x series nVidia for my ancient card
[ ] Install 8x series nVidia for my old card
[x] Install 9x nVidia drivers for newer cards (recommended for HD)
[x] Install MrFarenheight's nVidia tweaks for low XOrg CPU usage.

Without the newer drivers and the tweak, R5E50 was not suitable for HD playback on reference hardware. I suspect the same is true with R5F1.

Why not code it up and send it to Cecil? He's been known to pick up a useful addition or twenty...

Features like this mostly need someone who cares enough to do the work and support it. Most recently Human has been working in this area and added the autodetection of cards that need the legacy 7xxs drivers.

somehow I find this very difficult to believe if by reference hardware you mean the knoppmyth reference platform since human tests this hardware on every release, besides the reference platform should perform just as well as my old PIV 3.0G which works for HD just fine using a fx5200 out of the box. unless by suitable you mean only takes like 5% cpu or something crazy like that.

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Xsecrets

Yes, Dragon 1.0.
Lots of folks with Dragon-class machines had trouble with R5E50 (high cpu usage by x.org) until applying the fix outlined here:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13550
and this requires the newer drivers.

Did they drop support for FX5200 cards? If so I'm pretty glad I didn't get very far in my attempts to upgrade last night.

The FX5200 is supported by the 9xxx series, at least up to and including 9755. The older GPUs (Riva, GeForce2) are supported by the 7xxx drivers. See http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html

I think some of the MX4 stuff might have been dropped too...

That is correct. From http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC