[mythtv] XVideo XvMC VLD broken

[Terry Barnaby]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 07:30 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> 
>>>Your OSD fix in CVS has certainly fixed the problem with changing
>>>channels due to the OSD locks. Thanks. Things are much better now.
>>>However I have still had a channel change fail after quite a few
>>>changes. Here is an example where two channel changes worked Ok
>>>and the third failed. On the third case I get a frozen piucture
>>>and heavily stuttery sound.
>>>I will continue to investigate.
>>>In this case the error messages where: 
>>
>>Hi Daniel,
>>
>>I have just tried setting the number of Video buffers from 8 to 16
>>on the line: videoout_xv.cpp:531 vbuffers.Init(...).
>>This seems to work around the problem of channel changing on my
>>Via M10K XvMC VLD box.
> 
> 
> can you try adding 
>   cerr<<xvmc_surfs.size()<<endl;
> at line 1099, after the "xvmc_surfs=..." line.
> 
> And report back with the actual number of surfaces created.
> 
> 
>>Although this is covering up the problem, in the longer run
>>do you think it is work increasing the number of video buffers
>>for XvMC VLD machines where the number of XvMC surfaces available
>>allow this ?
> 
> If this is actually increasing the number of XvMC surfaces it may
> be actually solving the problem for XvMC-VLD. There are a number of
> machinations I go through to free XvMC buffers as soon as possible,
> just because we have so few. With just a few more buffers there is
> enough head room for the normal DiscardFrame(),ReleaseFrame()
> mechanism to work.
> 
> Of course your problem may still exits on more limited hardware,
> like the nvidia graphics cards...
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
> 
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Hi Daniel,

On my Via M10K box I get "16" surfaces. That is why I set the
number of buffers to 16 :)

Terry