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

Ivor Hewitt ivor at ivor.org
Wed Dec 29 18:50:46 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 16:15, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:40 am, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> >
> > For the past, oh 4 months.  Maybe it's just the blue theme, and yes I'm
> > 100% sure I'm using XvMC.  If I remember right, the limitation was two
> > colors.  My OSD is either white and blue or yellow and blue, but I'll
> > have to check.  I've disabled it for the last month to stop the frontend
> > crashing when I seek in HD streams.  (The other option was to hit esc
> > before the OSD tried to fade out, as that appears to be what causes the
> > video buffers in the nvidia cards to get filled and not release for more
> > frames to be drawn.
>
> If you have a color osd, you are _NOT_ using XvMC, unless you've applied
> Ivor Hewitt's work in progress patch.
>
Indeed, it will give you colour osd on NVidia XvMC but its very much "work in 
progress" and only tested on epia xvmc and probably only used by me at the 
moment. :-)


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