[mythtv-users] XvMC, the Internal DVD Player, UseXvMCForHDOnly, and You

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/10/06, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Gregory Keeney <gkeeney at panasas.com> wrote:
> > Dawning Sky wrote:
> > > doesn't seem working for me.  inserted a row into settings and
> > > restarted the frontend.  still the same.
> > >
> > Are you running 0.20?
> >
> > If you run this query:
> > select * from settings where value = "UseXvMCForHDOnly";
>
> interesting.  right after i inserted the row i checked and it was
> there.  now it's gone.  perhaps i should stop the backend first before
> i operate on the database?
>
> >
> > You should get something like:
> > +------------------+------+----------+
> > | value            | data | hostname |
> > +------------------+------+----------+
> > | UseXvMCForHDOnly | 1    | june     |
> > +------------------+------+----------+
> > (with your frontend hostname...)
> >
> > The easiest way to see that this is working is to bring up a SD digital
> > station and notice that the OSD is in color... You can then flip to an
> > HD station and the OSD will be back to monochrome...
>
> because i have set the UseChromaKeyOSD workaround, all my OSDs are in color.
>
> i will try again this evening.
>
> >
> > It bears repeating that all of this will only work right if you already
> > have a stable XvMC configuration. If you are still having problems with
> > XvMC this will only make matters... more confusing.
> >
> > Also, I should note that while this does not fix _all_ of the issues
> > that the Internal DVD player has -- I still can't play burned discs, for
> > example -- but it does make it workable. You might want to try a
> > different DVD, though I would try the HD / SD channel test first.
> >
> > In my case, I found the trade off of having a native OSD and UI worth
> > the occasional touchy DVD -- I ended up setting up the VCD player to run
> > 'xine -f dvd://' and I use that for discs that I _know_ won't play. This
> > gives me a nice hybrid system; I get to use the Internal player most of
> > the time. (It also makes that VCD menu item mean something to me... I
> > haven't seen a VCD since 1998...)

added to the Wiki...
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Use_XvMC_For_HD_Only

-- 
Steve
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