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

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Feb 22 22:36:01 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 22 February 2006 17:20, James Dastrup wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:17 -0500, Preston Crow wrote:
> > > > I don't have problems with XvMC.
> > > >
> > > > Actually, I did have a bunch of stuttering and "prebuffer pause"
> > > > messages in the log.  My frontend was suid-root to use real-time
> > > > scheduling.  I removed the suid, and the problem went away.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps there's a compatibility issue with realtime scheduling and
> > > > XvMC?
> > >
> > > Are you saying that you are using XvMC for HD playback and you have NO
> > > issues? By no issues, I mean truly no issues: Full color OSD, no
> > > prebuffering pauses, smooth OSD with no flickering, no stuttering at
> > > all anytime while watching live TV or recorded TV. Many people have
> > > minor issues but are willing to live with them.
> > >
> > > If this is true for you, I'm sure many would appreciate you sharing
> > > your relevant hardware (CPU, Video, etc) software versions (nvidia
> > > driver, mythTV, kernel, etc) and xorg.conf.
> >
> > My OSD is greyscale (doesn't bother me), but I have no stuttering or
> > flickering.  I'm running SVN from sometime in January.  I don't use live
> > TV.
> >
> > Hardware:  XP 2500+, nVida 5200FX, PATA drive (SATA causes problems due
> > to chipset issues).
>
> ...as I was saying, I have yet to find someone using XvMC without any
> problems.

Why is the greyscale OSD a problem?

Isaac


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