[mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Dec 28 21:01:13 UTC 2004


PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

>>>>Neil <neil-on-mythtv at restricted.dyndns.org> 12/28/2004 3:33:58 PM
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>>Great to hear that! So what about that grey scale in OSD when 
>>using xmvc, will that get fixed too? 
>>
>>Thanks. 
>>
>>Neil 
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>
>I have no idea what XvMC does, but I'm pretty sure 
>I'm not using it.  I have my machine set up using Jarod's 
>guide, and I think it's disaled by default in ATrpms.
>
>Same deal for grey scale OSD.  I'm not sure what all the isues 
>are with it.  My On screen display is just fine.  I haven't 
>fiddled with anything that would make the OSD 
>more or less transparent, so I'm not sure if it's 
>broken or if that's even what all the OSD hub-bub 
>is about...
>
>  
>
XvMC in a nutshell is MPEG-2 playback acceleration using the video card 
to do things in hardware normally done in software.  If you have a 
capable processor, XvMC is unnecessary, but if you are using a low-end 
machine as a frontend, it could matter.  I personally don't use it but 
that's what it is for.

Kevin



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