[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

[Steven Adeff]

On 4/14/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/14/2006 05:05 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 4/14/06, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:35 -0400, Steven Adeff 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
> >
>
> AIUI,
>
> 1) if using XvMC /with ChromakeyOSD/, turn off Composite
> 2) if using Xv, turn off Composite
> 3) if using XvMC without ChromakeyOSD, take your choice...

right, forgot to differentiate the Chromakey stuff.

So whats the good word on the RENDER extension?

--
Steve