[mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

Angel Li angel at miami.edu
Mon May 23 15:10:59 UTC 2005



Mario Limonciello wrote:

>Angel Li wrote:
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>>Mario Limonciello wrote:
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>>>>Well XvMC was working for me just last evening.  I had to restart X
>>>>this
>>>>morning for some reason or another, and now it is again not working
>>>>with
>>>>that same BadAlloc error.  What can be causing these anomolies?
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>>I can confirm this behavior. Yesterday I pulled up the OSD and I
>>noticed it was in color, a dead giveaway XvMC is not working, so I
>>poked around some but didn't find anything. I went back to watching
>>the NBA game in HD and sometime later I pulled up the OSD again and
>>this time it came up gray. My Myth frontend has enough horsepower to
>>not miss using XvMC so who knows how often this happens. The really
>>weird thing is that the front end log file had the Bad Alloc message
>>yet XvMC was working.
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>That was the same giveaway for me this morning too, the color OSD.
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>I would think my machine should be able to handle HD without xvmc, but
>it can't.
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>Athon64 3200+
>1 Gig PC3200 Ram
>Asus 68V SE Deluxe
>Nvidia 6600 GT
>Gentoo Linux 2005.0 (Compiled in 64 bit)
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>I'm completely taxed and lagging away on hd without xvmc in myth.  It
>plays fine with about 90 percent cpu usage in mplayer.  With xvmc I'm at
>about 60-70 cpu usage (when its working).
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That's weird cause my frontend is an Athlon64 3000, 512megs, the 
videocard is a cheap 6200 PCI Express card and using the soundcard on 
the motherboard I can get by without XvMC. I'm running Centos 4 but that 
doesn't really matter much and I'm running a build of 2.6.12-rc3.



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