[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3035: 1080i source material playback results in solid blue video with Via-XvMC

[Brian Teague]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 20:05 -0800, Paul Bender wrote:
> >> I think i readed somewhere the unichrome chipset only supports up
> to 
> >> 1024x1024. Perhaps thats the problem?

For the original Unichrome, this is true.  However, the Epia SP
motherboards sport the newer Unichrome Pro chipsets, which can decode a
1080i stream.  Unfortunately, the video chipset is shared memory, and
even the maximum setting (64 Mb) is not enough VRAM to allocate 16
decoding buffers.  I've attached a patch to ticket #3035 that changes
the value to 14 buffers, which allows playback of 1080i content.

I'm running it on an Epia SP800, which can just barely handle HD
playback.  There are a few other tweaks I made (buffering, real-time
priority for the decoding thread) that help matters immensely.  However,
I havn't had time to test those changes in the mythtv-vid branch (as I
was asked to do the last time I posted the patch, on ticket #1842).
When I have time to do so, I'll post the full patchset there and on
#3035.

Regards,
Brian

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