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

[James Dastrup]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:36 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> 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?

Then I suppose someone should inform danielk to not waste his time
working the related tickets.