[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

[Jesse Guardiani]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 4/13/06, itsmebcc <itsmebcc at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> well, I rebuilt mythfrontend enabled XvMC and OpenGL (and applied a
>>> patch I need to test...)
>>>       
>>> Well, XvMC works, beautifully. Xorg uses no CPU now, Mythfrontend uses
>>> ~10% less than before. Overall nice. The OSD is black and white, and I
>>> get a lot of stuttering when they display, but this is way beyond what
>>> I was able to do before. It works for both 1080i and 720p which is
>>> nice. OpenGL seems to just cause problems with or without XvMC, so
>>> I've disabled it.
>>>       
>>> Anyone have an idea of how to "solve" the OSD stutter when XvMC is enabled?
>>>       
>> Enable ChromaKeyOSD.  It is already in the fixes branch, all you have to do
>> to enable it is add this into mysql.
>>
>> INSERT INTO settings (`value`,`data`,`hostname`) VALUES
>> ("UseChromaKeyOSD","1","your_host_name")
>>
>> You will want to change your_host_name to your actual hostname obviously.
>> But I Have very good results when the chromakeyosd is enabled.  Not only
>> does my screen not flicker, but the osd is in color.
>>     
>
> Does this work with the NVidia drivers? I was under the impression it
> was for one of the other XvMC capable video cards.
>   

My understanding is that it's for nvidia 5xxx and 4xxx cards, and I 
think it also works with some (all?)
unichrome cards.

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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net