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

[R. G. Newbury]

Brad Fuller wrote:
> 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
This is useful, but I still want to know if the configure run reported 
that it would install the wrapper (XvMCW) or the library.
I have the similar (but different) libviaXvMC.so.1 in my XvMCConfig file 
(note that  there is a difference in naming convention, probably not 
relevant).


Geoff

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