[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 21:05:31 UTC 2006


On 4/14/06, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:35 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 4/13/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> > > On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > > > On 4/13/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> > Brad, I wonder if there are other options that may affect this. Could
> > you post your Screen and Device sections? Also, do you have Composite
> > and RENDER both on?
>
> Quote from Andy Ritger @ nVidia:
> - A Video Overlay Xv Adaptor is obviously fundamentally incompatible
>   with Damage/Composite.  Should X drivers no longer advertise
>   Video Overlay Xv adaptors if they are running in an X server that
>   includes Composite support?
>
> Composite can not be used with XVideo overlay, and ChromaKeyOSD
> relies on XVideo overlay. By enabling Composite you are basically
> enabling "XvmcUsesTextures" which breaks ChromaKeyOSD.
>
> Note also that XVideo does not yet play nice with the Composite
> Extension, so if you enable Composite you should shut down your
> composite manager before starting up XVideo playback.
>
> BTW If you want to have see some semi-transparent MythTV windows,
> you can make MythTV ignore XVideo by defining the NO_XV environment
> variable. I can run 4 SDTV instances of mythfrontend on my CPU
> without XVideo... This will, of course, use significantly more CPU
> than using XVideo.

Daniel, interesting information. So let me see if I understand...

1) if using XvMC, turn off Composite
2) if using Xv, turn off Composite

?

--
Steve


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