[mythtv-users] XvMC - less stable on 0.17 and latest CVS compared
to 0.16
Brian Foddy
bfoddy at visi.com
Mon Apr 4 16:52:14 UTC 2005
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, John Kuhn wrote:
> Will Dormann wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anybody noticed stability problems with XvMC and 0.17 or later?
> > When I fast forward a lot or press the pause button and let it go for
> > a while, when I unpause it my machine is locks up.
> >
> > I should mention that I have *no* hard lockup problems with 0.16
> >
> > What made me test the CVS version is that I recently realized that
> > Live TV doesn't seem to play well with XvMC enabled on 0.16. I'm
> > using Bob Deinterlacing with this patch:
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/87191
> >
> > The OSD flickers, which I can mostly live with. But it seems that if
> > the OSD is on the screen for too long, it can cause the video to go
> > corrupt. What seems to trigger this is watching Live TV, then
> > changing channels. It looks like having the OSD up while changing
> > channels causes mythfrontend to hang. I can exit X and restart it to
> > get up and running again, though. (Compared to 0.17 where I have to
> > hit the power switch)
> >
> I have the same issues as well.. i had to disable it..
>
> --John
0.17 had some serious problems with XvMC.
Using recent CVS's tho has been much better for XvMC stability again.
I use it all the time again.
Brian
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