[mythtv] running on an epia

[Nicolas Mainil]

On 4/11/06, Colin Guthrie <mythtv at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > running a pretty recent svn on an epia-m9000
> > works quite nicely but... (there always is one)
> > what should i be using to display tv
> >
> > i've tried "standard", "xvmc" and "via xvmc"
> > i would have assumed that via xvmc would be the best in terms of
> > smoothness of play (no stuttering etc)
> > however, to my amazement, it appears that "standard" is the only one
> > which won't stutter
> >
> > have i somehow mis-configured myth when i built it?
> > i'm using XvMCW and when mythfrontend is running i can see that it
> > dlopen'd the via library
> > but when configured to using the via library the audio stutters like mad
> >
> > any help would be appreciated
> > the box is working fine - but i'm confused as to why i have to set it up
> > as i do!
>
> I'm running my f/e on a m10k and I find it best when using Via XvMC
> mode. I've applied all the sugguestions on the XvMC wiki page so that
> may be a place to start.
>
> I'm using Chroma Key OSD.
>
> The biggest source of stuttering I found was when I was streaming from
> myth b/e rather than getting the data via a shared NFS mount. Shared NFS
> Mount is 100x better (an approximate measurement!).

Is it running transparently? I mean, do you play the videos on the nfs
share from mythfrontend? If yes, how do you set it up? If no, what
program do you use?

Nicolas

>
> When I go to sleep/wake up my EPIA it sometimes seems to jump to
> stuttering mode. A proper reboot fixes this although I believe this is
> due to stale NFS handles and thus myth resorts to streaming. The reboot
> just clears them out. Not really looked into it in any great depth yet.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Col.
>
>
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