[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 16:11:54 UTC 2006


On 4/13/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
> 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.

ok, need to try that out. May be an evening home tonight, so much to
play with =D

--
Steve


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