[mythtv-users] mythbuntu 9.10 / myth 0.22 & vdpau

[Peter Lord]

On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 16:52:31 Johnny wrote:
> > With the "slim" playback profile selected, mythfrontend.real uses around
> > 27% of the cpu and picture quality is fine.  But with a "vdpau" profile
> > (no deinterlacer) I get poor picture quality (lots of pixelization and
> > sound distortion) although cpu usage is reduced to around 10%.
> >
> > I have :-
> >
> > * 2xUSB DVB-T (UK)
> > * nvidia-185-libvdpau / myth 0.22.0~trunk22242-0ubuntu1 packages
> 
> I am not sure which version of the 185 drivers you have, but myself
> and many other experienced these type of quality issues with the 185
> drivers. I rolled back to 180.60 and everything was fine. There are
> also some 190.36 beta drivers available. Or you can check and make
> sure you have the most up to date version of the 185 driver. Some
> people did indicate that they improved that version with the most
> recent updates.

Thanks.

However, I'm not sure I can do this .. the mythbuntu myth packages depend on 
nvidia-185-libvdpau.

So, if I try to remove it (ready to execute the nvidia installer), the package 
system wants to remove all of myth :-(