[mythtv-users] Cannot get XVMC to work?

[Nate Carlson]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> There is actually a fix in SVN head that might help. The nVidia XvMC 
> implementation only has 8 XvMC surfaces, a couple of which are needed 
> for the blended (grey) OSD. But the XvMC in 0.19-fixes sometimes leaks a 
> surfaces when it can't keep up with frame display, there is some code in 
> SVN head that attempts to recapture these frames more quickly than the 
> recapture code in 0.19-fixes. The net effect is better recovery after 
> high motion video, OSD display, and prebuffer pauses.

Sounds like time to upgrade to HEAD, then.  :)

That's not in 0.19-fixes, I'm assuming?

Also, is it ok to run HEAD's Frontend with 0.19's backend, or do I need to 
upgrade both?

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