[mythtv] [exp. patch] xv xvmc merge

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:21 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> What happens is that MPEG has a series of frames, say: IBBBPBBBI
> The I frames don't depend on any other frames, but the B frames depend
> on an I and a P, and the P frame depends on the previous I. But once
> MythTV displays a frame, it puts it on the list of frames ready to be
> recycled. With Lo-Fi TV this is works most of the time; this is only
> because by the time a frame is displayed all the frames depending
> on it have usually already been rendered.

Yeah, also made worse due to the limited # of buffers with xvmc.  Could 
possible look into tying it into the release_buffer mechanism better, as a 
way of hopefully knowing when it's completely done with a frame.  Or, your 
approach below could work too.

Just be sure to not leak frames.  =)

Isaac