[mythtv-users] HD playback on Myth, 0-23-fixes

Kevin Ross kevin at familyross.net
Wed Sep 8 04:21:46 UTC 2010


  On 9/5/2010 2:47 PM, Liam Friel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Acer Revo 3610, about 6 months old. It has dual-core Atom 
> 330 with NVIDIA ION chipset of some recent vintage ... according to 
> the forums (I think) this should work fine.
>
> I confess to not having checked the gory details, since I am not super 
> familiar with the myth frontend ... I was happily using only the xbmc 
> frontend with the myth backend, until I embarked recently on trying to 
> get DVB-T working ... this was with the standard Ubuntu binary install 
> which is currently myth 0.22
>
> Nor did I pay huge attention when building the 0-23-fixes branch. I 
> took defaults for everything.
>
> On the frontend, I have tried all variants (on the UI) of Playback 
> setting for VDPAU and one or two of the non-VDPAU settings. None of 
> these seem to make any obvious difference to my playback troubles.
>
> I am sure you're right and it's just a FE issue since recordings will 
> both playback in XBMC, and play find in XBMC when streamed by the myth 
> backend... but I don't yet know what bits of it to tweak on the UI (or 
> when building) to make this go away ...
>

As Tortise suggested, make sure compositing is turned off.  You can edit 
your xorg.conf by hand, but it's easier to just run:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite

and then restart X.



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