[mythtv-users] *Fixed* Nvidia 8400GS PCI, High Xorg CPU, Tearing

Lee Koloszyc teething12 at hotmail.com
Sat Dec 6 00:28:26 UTC 2008




From: teething12 at hotmail.com
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:15:49 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8400GS PCI, High Xorg CPU, Tearing








R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Lee Koloszyc wrote:
>   
>> Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
>>     
>>> I think the common wisdom is that the PCI bus does not have enough 
>>> bandwidth for HD if you are not using VDPAU. With VDPAU the video stream 
>>> passed to the card is still compressed, so it's fine.
>>>
>>> Bolek
>>>       
>> It doesn't even play SD right though and I would think it would have 
>> enough bandwidth for that?
>> So the bandwith limit could be causing the high xorg cpu%?
>>
>>     
>
> Someone posted here recently that they could use VDPAU on a 256Meg Ram 
> video board using xfce but not while using KDE.
> So maybe you might want to try changing the session and see what happens.
>
> Geoff

I have mythtrunk up and running with the 180.11 drivers and it seems to run anything I throw at it!!
1080i runs at about 9% CPU and 720P at 5%.  I'm loving this!!!
There are some problems with mythfrontend segfaulting the first time and at somepoint I got white blocks for menu items.  Restarting mythfrontend seems to have fixed it.  I'm happy.

Lee




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