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

[Peter Lord]

On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 18:05:10 Phil Linttell wrote:
> On 10/07/2009 11:02 AM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:02:38 +0100
> > From: Peter Lord<peter at plord.co.uk>
> > Subject:
> >
> > I've recently re-installed my settup box with the recently released
> > mythbuntu 9.10 beta.  Currently going through the process of getting
> > everything working
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > One issue I have is vdpau.
> >
> > 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%.
> 
> Try turning off OpenGL video sync, and upgrade your nVidia drivers to
> the latest 190.36 beta.
> 
> You don't mention what motherboard / video chipset you have, but I have
> an 8200 series and found that screen tearing went away with 190.*

Okay, thanks.  I have "NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8200 (C77)", but still not very 
usable with 190 :-(


> 
> I'm running trunk on a couple of different systems with VDPAU and 9.10
>  beta.
>