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Fri Aug 3 13:33:49 UTC 2007


this.

3) The times when I've thought that I did have XvMC working, it's had
> kind of flickery lines at the top and/or bottom of the screen and and
> logos on screen look flickery. Is that normal?
> Is XvMC a sacrifice in quality for the sake of speed?
> I thougth it was just a speed increse.


XvMC, when done properly, should result in the same quality video without
artifacts, flickering or anything.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure where your
issues are coming from.  What video card do you have?

It's frustrating that I spend most of my day at a Windows machine, which
> is where my email is set up for this list. It makes it so much harder to
> just send a few lines from the logs to enquire about.


I'd take up the time to set up SSH and use putty with windows--invaluable
for remotely accessing your machine.

-- 
Dylan

Type faster.  Use Dvorak:
http://dvzine.org

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damian</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:damian at gingermagic.co.uk">damian at gingermagic.co.uk</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
1) What&#39;s the best way to tell if it&#39;s working or not?<br>I find the frontend log confusing.<br>Times when I&#39;ve thought that it is working, the fronend it thowing out<br>all sorts of odd info.<br>Time when I&#39;ve though it&#39;s not it&#39;s throwing out different info.
<br>What should I be looking for?</blockquote><div><br>As you&#39;ve since noted, grey OSD is probably the best indicator that XvMC is enabled and being used<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2) Is it still the case that BOBx2 is the only deinterlacer that works<br>with XvMC or is that old information (it&#39;s in the Myth guide I was<br>looking at)<br>My previous de-interlacing preference was &#39;kernel&#39;
</blockquote><div><br>From what I remember BOB is the only option, but I&#39;m not too confident about this. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
3) The times when I&#39;ve thought that I did have XvMC working, it&#39;s had<br>kind of flickery lines at the top and/or bottom of the screen and and<br>logos on screen look flickery. Is that normal?<br>Is XvMC a sacrifice in quality for the sake of speed?
<br>I thougth it was just a speed increse.</blockquote><div><br>XvMC, when done properly, should result in the same quality video without artifacts, flickering or anything.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I&#39;m not sure where your issues are coming from.&nbsp; What video card do you have?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It&#39;s frustrating that I spend most of my day at a Windows machine, which<br>
is where my email is set up for this list. It makes it so much harder to<br>just send a few lines from the logs to enquire about.</blockquote><div><br>I&#39;d take up the time to set up SSH and use putty with windows--invaluable for remotely accessing your machine.
<br></div><br></div>-- <br>Dylan<br><br>Type faster.&nbsp;&nbsp;Use Dvorak:<br><a href="http://dvzine.org">http://dvzine.org</a>

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