[mythtv-users] 0.19, XvMC, and Prebuffer pause

[James Dastrup]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:24 -0800, Dawning Sky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded to 0.19 through ATrpms and so far it's been running
> great.  XvMC is much more stable.  I can now watch Live TV or
> recordings for hours without freezing.  But I still get a lot of
> "prebuffer pause" and either "video xxx frames ahead of audio" or
> "audio xxx frames ahead of video" in the frontend log.  Sometimes I
> don't even notice any problem by simply watching the playback, but
> sometimes the problem can be very noticable.  I'm wondering whether
> anyone else is having or had the similar problem and how to solve
> it.  
> 
> My machine is a P4 2.4GHz, 768MB RAM, FX5200 on AGP, running nVidia
> driver 7174 on FC3 2.6.12 kernel.  When watching HD contents, the
> frontend is using about 50% CPU and X using about 3%.
> 

Everyone has problems with XvMC. There are some suggestions in the wiki
to reduce the problems, but you won't be able to solve everything.
Because you only have a P4 2.4, you will need XvMC to watch HD content.
Or, get a P4 2.8 and turn off XvMC.