[mythtv-users] deinterlacing and non-smooth playback at 1080i

[Seth Daniel]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 01:59:39PM -0700, Seth Daniel wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 01:42:53PM +0100, Mark Kendall wrote:
> > On 5/24/07, Seth Daniel <mythtv.org at sethdaniel.org> wrote:
> >> All right. I was able to compile and install 8776 with that patch you 
> >> pointed
> >> out.  I then modified my .nvidia-settings-rc files and turned off
> >> 0/SyncToVBlank and 0/XVideoTextureSyncToVBlank.  Started X.  Ran
> >> nvidia-settings --load-config-only.  Ran myth frontend.  Selected a
> >> 1080i recording...and I get 1-2 seconds of sound, a black screen, and
> >> then it hangs (I presume).
> >
> > Seth
> >
> > I've attached my xorg.conf in case it gives any pointers. I've not
> > seen what you describe in some time - am starting to wonder whether
> > it's down to the card model as well. The 7xxx series (I think) and
> > above actually use opengl to render xv - so you may only see certain
> > xv bugs on certain models.
> 
> I have a 7200 lying about somewhere.  I may just see what happens with
> it.  I originally bought it b/c it had a component dongle and I wanted
> to see if using component-out had the same sync problems that DVI has
> (it does, even though I can use the built-in 1920x1080 modeline and not
> a custom modeline).

Actually, it was a 7600 GT.  And, unfortunately, it didn't work either.
Not with trunk and not with mythtv-vid. :o(  Using the 8776 driver
always returns the same, bad results.  I get a black screen etc... plus
the dreaded "(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT(...)"  log entries in my Xorg.0.log
file.

I'm still operating under the delusion (or 'hope') that the main
problem, the sync issue, is an nVidia driver bug and that it will be
fixed at some point.

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