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

[Brad Fuller]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Gavin Haslett wrote:
>   
>> Uh... I'm using XvMC with no problems. Granted I have no HD content, all
>> SD... But it works like a champ for me. No prebuffering pauses, color
>> OSD (with the hack installed), and around 20% max CPU on an AMD 800
>> (hence why no HD).
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:17 -0500, Preston Crow wrote:
>> <snipped>
>>
>> ...as I was saying, I have yet to find someone using XvMC without any
>> problems.
>>   
>>     
> Can you answer some questions, please about your setup and xvmc?
> I am getting lines in frontend saying  "NVP: Pre-buffer pause" and I get 
> short garbles in the audio. These garbles are created on recording as 
> they exist in the same place in liveTV, play TV and with mplayer.
> The only error which I can find is that mplayer reports   something like 
> "A52: CRC check error"  basically continuously while playing.
>
> I presume that you are using an nvidia card. (I'm on a Via SP13000 
> motherboard so things are different..)
> When you run configure for mythtv, does it report that it will use  
> -lXvMCW or -lXvMCNvidia (or -lNvidiaXvMC whichever it is)
> Does your /etc/X11/XvMCConfig file have a line saying something like 
> "libNvidiaXvMC.so.x.x.x.x"
> I'm trying to understand what should be the output from configure. I 
> seem to get better results if I skip the XvMCW (wrapper) test and make 
> the output the 'libviaXvMcPro' itself. This probably is 'wrong' but I'm 
> not sure.
>   
This is probably of no use to you since I'm using Axel's 0.19 rpms, but
my XvMCConfig has one line:
libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1

brad